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...through Brownsville ends with a stop sign that needs to be taken seriously. The asphalt turns into beach and leads straight into the sea. But turn right, and you can drive down the beach as in the old days at Daytona, on fine, hard-packed sand, hugging the Gulf of Mexico. It's a place to appreciate a pristine view--no condos, no concession stands, no concessions at all to anything except the fact that the border begins where the Rio Grande pours into the sea, and so it has to be guarded carefully...
...Through organizations like PBHA and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, smaller groups of students volunteered in the Gulf region through the fall and winter...
...dramatic increase in the number of Harvard volunteers reflected a broader trend, as students from colleges across the country opted to spend spring break doing service in the Gulf. Tent cities of volunteers have popped up in parts of the Crescent City. Harvard students arrived at the tail end of the March boom...
...places to re-examine their emergency plans. "There are many other places in the nation that are now much better prepared," Loy says. Last month, Loy and former FEMA director James Lee Witt founded Protecting America, a coalition of emergency officials, first responders and insurers. The coalition suggested that Gulf officials learn from Florida's example when rebuilding their hurricane response capability. It is one of only five states that reports feeling confident in its evacuation plan, and Loy and Witt say it has exemplary building codes, public campaigns, equipment, interagency relationships, and a catastrophe fund that helps bolster insurance...
...Weinberger himself acknowledged in a recently released interview with University of Virginia scholars in November 2002 that his spending push was "the worst way to do it - the most expensive way." But he defended its wisdom. "Some of the fruits of that paid off in the Gulf War many years later," he explained, "because we had there very smart weapons which enabled us to win the Gulf War with very little cost to ourselves." Weinberger spoke those words four months before the U.S. launched the second Iraq war in March 2003. It's fair to give Weinberger credit for helping...