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...piece of the homeland-security pie," says Tavares. And the pie will be big. Congress has pledged about $38 billion in 2003 for homeland security. Some of it will go to the likes of General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrup, all of which sell security systems. But they tend to hire smaller shops like L-3 to make components, so, as Lanza puts it, "we won't be competing with the gorillas." Last year L-3 was a subcontractor for Boeing on several airport-security systems, and it is now working with Lockheed to supply communications gear and systems engineering...
...same time, the federal Department of Education says there is a “critical need” for teachers. Over the next 10 years, American school districts will try to hire 2.2 million new educators. While these positions are going unfilled, people who wanted to spend their first two years out of college teaching will instead be working on Wall Street or studying in law school...
...doesn’t Teach For America hire more of its applicants to address this need...
Start with an outmoded power generation plant. Hire a high-profile architect. Remove the unused equipment and renovate the interior. Add a collection of contemporary works of art. The result? The bankside Tate Modern in London—or Harvard’s new museum for contemporary art on the Charles River...
...percent beyond what was already the biggest military buildup since the presidency of Ronald Reagan. But much of the new money would be spent for questionable initiatives like a missile defense system and “futuristic ships,” while the budget would eliminate $330 million to hire police officers nationwide. Once again Bush is putting pressure on states to raise security and then withholding necessary funds from them...