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...near-sighted administration, and doing what it takes to rebuild our competitiveness: repealing Bush’s greedy tax cut that explodes our debt and socks a $30,000 “birth tax” on every young American and investing in math and science education, homeland security and energy independence...
...died out long ago here, and shows little sign of taking hold again. Indeed, the idea that a religion associated with passivity and otherworldly mysticism might offer a solution to their problems would seem hopelessly quaint to many people in Bihar and other troubled parts of the Buddha's homeland. As a friend once told the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, the Buddha was one of those "luxuries India could not afford." Mishra, however, has decided that the opposite is true: that the Buddha still matters to the India of interminable job lines and violent crime. That's the message...
...Step One of Mishra's effort to rehabilitate the Buddha for his homeland is to rediscover Prince Siddhartha?the man who became the most famous Indian of all time while meditating under a fig tree in Bihar. Going back to the earliest Buddhist documents, Mishra recreates the scene in eastern India in the 6th century B.C., when a young aristocrat who has abandoned his wife and fortune, stumbles through Bihar searching for a way to end misery in the world. Restless, curious, lonely and sometimes arrogant, Mishra's Buddha is an ordinary man confronting problems that face ordinary...
Three years after the al-Qaeda attacks, academia is embracing the post-9/11 world. Some 200 colleges and universities offer homeland-security studies much as, decades ago, national-security programs sprang up to address the issues of the cold war. Community colleges--already in the business of training fire fighters, police officers and medical technicians to deal with hurricanes and earthquakes--were first to mount new certification programs tailored to unnatural disasters. Four-year institutions quickly followed. Last fall San Diego State launched an interdisciplinary master's degree in homeland security, attracting students from nursing, criminal justice and political...
Some students are drawn to the subjects because they have family and friends shipping out to Iraq. But many see job opportunities ahead--not just in government (the federal Homeland Security Department employs 183,000) but in industry as well. "A lot of companies are specializing in homeland-security technology," says U.S.C. Dean Max Nikias. "Everybody wants to get into this." --By Margot Roosevelt