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...Heritage Foundation, is that DHS's plans still assume that state and local authorities will be responsible in the first 72 hours after a catastrophe. "In this case," he says, "the state and local response was wiped out. There was no one to fill the 72-hour gap...
...midlife must depart from traditional adulthood and grow in a different dimension. Like teenagers, we have the opportunity to dream: to imagine different scenarios for the future, to go to school, live in a new city, take a trip. But we need to close the gender gap. No longer separated by unique family roles, women and men have a common agenda: to find new purpose and cement relationships, to kick up and have fun. Abigail Trafford Washington For many years, the idea of a man having a midlife crisis provoked laughter. How many cartoons and jokes are there about middle...
Experts note that the social phenomenon of people marrying and starting families later allows parents a gap during which they can break away from the old ways. Some couples with married kids complain that the next generation is too slow to change its approach to holidays. That's why parents like the Schwartzes take off and leave the adult kids to fend for themselves. "After our holiday in Paris," Dianne Schwartz says, "I realized I'd needed to nudge the kids into starting their own traditions. After all, it's part of the growth process...
...take the Republican Party toward the center, the one for Clinton is whether she can carve out a space for herself there. While only 21% of Americans consider themselves liberal, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last December, 58% think she is one. Among swing voters, the gap between the percentage of self-described liberals and people who perceive Clinton as one was 43 points. Clinton's views have always been more nuanced than either her enemies or her fans have been willing to admit, and she has been working hard to mute her image as a hard-line...
...Perhaps an even more important factor is populist backing: leftism is on the rise again in Latin America for a reason, namely the burgeoning feeling around the region that a decade of U.S.-backed capitalist reforms has simply widened an already epic gap between rich and poor-and that the Bush Administration is indifferent to it. As Chavez uses his multi-billion-dollar oil revenues to fund the kind of social projects that Venezuela's legions of impoverished never saw from his kleptocratic predecessors-and to subsidize cheaper oil for his cash-strapped Latin neighbors-more people are willing...