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...demonstrated its ineptness in managing the task. It lacks the expertise required to evaluate the myriad alternative solutions and execute a plan. Rebuilding and protecting New Orleans and the coastal wetlands is indeed analogous to putting a person on the moon. It should be orchestrated by an independent civilian agency composed of experts from industry and academia, representing all the branches of science and engineering from which expertise is required. That agency would not build a wall or a levee or a canal but rather an ecosystem compatible with nature, mankind, the arts and industry unique to this great spot...
Number of guns in the U.S. for every 100 citizens, according to the 2007 Small Arms Survey, making it the most heavily armed country in the world. India has the second largest civilian gun-arsenal tally, with just 4 guns per 100 people...
...President to mine the desire that is out there for serving and create a program for universal national service that will be his - or her - legacy for decades to come. It is the simple but compelling idea that devoting a year or more to national service, whether military or civilian, should become a countrywide rite of passage, the common expectation and widespread experience of virtually every young American...
...Launch a Green Corps This would be a combination of F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps - which put 3 million "boys in the woods" to build the foundation of our modern park system - and a group that would improve national infrastructure and combat climate change. When Roosevelt created the CCC, there were 25 million young Americans who were unemployed. Today there are 1.5 million Americans between 18 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school. These young men and women could address America's well-documented infrastructure problems. The Green Corps could reclaim polluted streams and blighted urban lots; repair...
...point in the exchange, Jordan offers to give the investigators the prisoner identification numbers of detainees who had been released from Abu Ghraib, including "a female" and others who "could probably highlight negative stuff" about Stefanowicz and his civilian associate...