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...Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there's this much damage, there are only so many spare barges, compressors and generators out there," he says. "We're losing 1,000 barrels...
Bolden-Kramer will use her grant to develop a curriculum for young lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women of color in the San Francisco Bay area. Zhang will coordinate a legal aid program for the London Chinatown community. And Lee will expand a childcare and education program at the Codman Square Community Health Center in Dorchester, so that the children of patients will be looked after while their parents receive treatment...
...bush administration repeats lessons from our recent past. Both the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Vietnam War were also partly caused by something called groupthink, in which decision-makers consider advice only from those who back one set of ideas. One of the hallmarks of an educated person is willingness to critically evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses: in this case, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supporting al-Qaeda. For that, I give him an F in critical thinking and in leadership. Joseph Melcher St. Cloud, Minnesota...
...projects that were included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit the Commonwealth’s more affluent residents. Among the most needed of the 1990 projects is an extension of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line from its Lechmere terminus to the northwest through Somerville and Medford. Somerville, one of the largest—and most underserved—communities in the metropolitan area, has only one T stop (in Davis Square), and that’s at the very edge...
...visit was to familiarize undergraduates with the education, culture, role, and missions of the American military,” he said. Along with the seminars, the students visited the institution’s war-game facilities and historical sites and dined at the officers’ club overlooking Narragansett Bay. “It really shows you what military leaders need to take into account in planning and executing operations,” said Vivek Viswanathan ’09, another attendee. The Naval War College exists in large part to educate military and government officials in strategy and technology...