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...auto parts companies and insurance operators. The general rule of thumb is that the sectors of the economy that are considered "strategic" will get the lion's share of funding. Car companies are strategic because they employ so many people. Banks are in this category because the credit system cannot operate efficiently without them...
...public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle school should not consider itself a temple. We cannot forget the lessons of productive innovation when it comes to education. I do not ask that public schools as they exist today be shut down. But I submit that, after the subsidy is shifted to the student, public schools compete against the full force of a veritable entrepreneurial revolution...
...When this tremendous mistake is undone, entrepreneurs will collaborate and compete, remaking in ways we literally cannot yet imagine the business of educating the flower of our youth. The drab monotony of a nation’s students taking notes off of a chalkboard in classrooms unchanged since Ike will be remade precisely the way our phones have been remade: with an explosion of unimagined options and quality, and with an eye to helping us remain productive in a newly complex and global world...
...areas under their control. Gustavo Duncan, who authored a book on the Colombian paramilitaries, says similar organizations could emerge in Mexico amid the breakdown in state authority. "While Mexico may not ever get as bad as Colombia, some of the factors are very similar," Duncan notes. "When the state cannot keep control in certain areas, it leaves a vacuum for these type of organizations to step in and in many ways they become the state...
...word's oceans by nuclear-armed vessels from France, Britain, and China. Under the plains of the American West, and in similar silos in Russia, Air Force missile operators keep constant vigil, launch keys at the ready. Nuclear missiles have no self-destruct button; once launched, they cannot be called back. Twenty years after the end of the cold war, humanity still lives within 30 minutes of its own destruction. The price we pay for maintaining nuclear weapons is the gamble that the highly improbable will not lead to the unthinkable. The question to ask after this latest nervy episode...