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...with universal health care and greenhouse-gas caps, Schwarzenegger and California are once again doing what the rest of the country shoulda coulda done but didn't. After Hurricane Katrina, the secret was out that government alone would never be able to manage big disasters. First responders like firefighters and police make up less than 1% of the population. They cannot be everywhere--or even most places. So the vast majority of rescues are done by regular people. The problem is, regular people have almost never been intelligently engaged in emergency planning--until, perhaps, now. "It's a brilliant move...
...wall in a bar fight, SNL handed her not one but two broken whiskey bottles: the debate skit and a brilliant girl-power endorsement from Tina Fey, who obliterated the worst arguments against Hillary--Bill fatigue, her age and the charge that she's a bitch. "Bitches get stuff done," Fey sassed. "Bitch is the new black...
...arise. "From a tactical perspective, we generally have operations that have been on the ground," says Rigoberto Giron, director of CARE's emergency and humanitarian-assistance unit. "Those workers know all the local contacts and cultural constraints, so they've got a good sense of what needs to be done and the best way to get it done." In a disaster, response teams identify the needs and the fund-raising required and then work with the country team to leverage local resources...
...There are numerous peer counseling groups and mental health resources available on campus for those who are willing to seek them. When all is said and done though, each individual in the community must be willing to educate him or herself about mental health and be willing to take the initiative to care for their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the community. Developing a caring campus, in part, depends on recognizing how excessive stress can be debilitating to individuals and then our entire community. In multiple surveys our students repeatedly report that stress is the major impediment to academic...
...Lawrence King felt comfortable enough in his school environment to come out at such a young age. On the other hand, many young people who have unconventional sexual or gender orientations are subject to merciless teasing (and in this case, ultimately death) because of attitudes that schools have not done enough to curtail. If homosexuality were presented to children in schools from a very young age as an acceptable facet of diversity (as race and religion are), we would certainly see a decline in the blindly cruel homophobia of American youth. The death of a 15-year...