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Summers, who is also Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, told the crowd of more than 400 who had gathered in the Science Center that he wanted to dismiss the "apocalyptic rhetoric" and doomsday predictions frequently heard among economists...
Girard is not alone in questioning the government's plans for self- preservation. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S.'s doomsday planners are engaged in a sweeping reassessment of crisis scenarios. The old relocation centers are under review. Some are to be mothballed, others converted to more mundane uses: record storage and office space. Contingency plans and dusty crisis regulations are being re-examined. Having outlived its enemy and its original mission, the doomsday bureaucracy faces a more immediate threat -- irrelevance. But as the last members of the original generation of doomsday planners step down, they...
...doomsday government story required Gup to dig even deeper. "I ate a lot of dust," he says, while sifting through reams of official archives. He unearthed documents about how Washington planned to protect the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During the reporting, Ted thought frequently of his two toddler sons David and Matthew. "I pray that they won't have to grow up under a cloud of anxiety and that all of this will seem exotic and far away to them...
...most difficult challenges facing doomsday planners was deciding what cultural treasures should be saved. In 1950 the National Gallery of Art began construction of a $550,000 facility on the grounds of Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., as a safe haven for works of art. Funded by a private trust, the windowless structure had storage areas for sculptures and screened partitions to protect paintings. Nearby was a three-bedroom cottage, fully furnished and complete with china, silverware and napkins -- ready for the curator to move in and oversee the collection. Several former gallery executives recall that...
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