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...total federal debt that will cross 100% of GDP in 2012, according to White House projections. The rolling crisis of the past three years has been an embarrassing exercise in exposing the financially underclothed. It doesn't appear to be over--and the U.S. isn't what you would call well dressed...
Thus comes what you might call the realitization of reality: the evolution of once private, or at least obscure, acts into performance. The diary becomes the blog. The home-movie collection becomes the YouTube channel. The résumé becomes the public search-result page...
...feel full (at which point you would have been better off ordering one Big Mac). But I wanted to know about the man behind it, this guy who thinks he can tinker with a paragon of Americana as durable as the Big Mac. Coudreaut might call himself Chef Dan, but isn't he just a p.r. stunt, a suit masquerading in chef's whites...
...medevacs are confined to an area very close to the helicopters, and the troops cannot stray too far from there in case there is a call. There are two teams on duty at once, "first up" and "second up," and if there is a mass casualty, they both have to fly. There is also a team on a chase helicopter, which provides cover for the medevacs in case they are fired on. Members of the first-up team are on for 24 hours and take any call that comes in during that spell. They basically sit around and wait...
Versions of CompStat now shape police work in metropolitan areas from coast to coast. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, for example, Prince George's County chief Roberto Hylton sings the praises of "a technology that we call Active Crime Reporting, which provides information every 15 minutes, so I can see, even from a laptop away from work, the whole crime picture of the county. I can shift resources. It actually provides me with the trends, patterns that have occurred the previous week, previous day, maybe even the previous year." Paired with a program to improve trust and communication between...