Word: homelands
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...shop--in disaster preparedness. His firm, Michael D. Brown LLC, draws on the lessons of Katrina to help corporate clients implement contingency plans ahead of natural disasters. He has taken his unapologetic message to Congress. Testifying in February, he blamed his bosses at the Department of Homeland Security for FEMA's response to Katrina and urged "corrective action" so that "disasters don't occur in the future." "If we don't learn from this, then shame on us," he said in an interview with NBC. "I will have been scapegoated for nothing...
...TIME in Southeast Asia. But I will also remember Yuan's conviction that the outside world must know what is going on in Linyi so it can help change things for the better. Hers is a faith based on a system that has not yet taken root in her homeland - one in which justice would consistently prevail and heroes like her husband would be honored. But if Yuan can have hope in China's future, then I should, too. I can't pack that sense of optimism in a box, but it is something about China that I will treasure...
...June the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an unprecedented analysis of state and urban emergency plans around the country, including assessments of evacuation plans and command structures. The report concluded that most "cannot be characterized as fully adequate, feasible, or acceptable." Among the worst performers: Dallas, New Orleans and Oklahoma City. (The best by far was the state of Florida...
...sounds more important than it is, to take a spot that had opened on Armed Services. She was one of the first in Congress to point out that U.S. forces in Iraq lack the armor they need. After 9/11, she became one of the Senate's loudest voices on homeland security, pointing to lapses in port inspections and voicing early criticism of border protection. She counts as her biggest accomplishment her role in securing $20 billion in aid for her state in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. More recently, she has taken a lead role...
...greater than ever for law enforcement's most elusive dream: a simple technique that can expose a liar as dependably as a blood test can identify DNA or a Breathalyzer can nail a drunk. Quietly over the past five years, Department of Defense agencies and the Department of Homeland Security have dramatically stepped up the hunt. Though the exact figures are concealed in the classified "black budget," tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars are believed to have been poured into lie-detection techniques as diverse as infrared imagers to study the eyes, scanners to peer into...