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...This is not what one would expect from officials who believed that responding to natural disasters is one of the most important and unique functions of government. It’s not what one would expect from people who realized that only a huge entity like the state can perform the monumental tasks involved in an ongoing humanitarian crisis: providing helicopters and boats for rescue efforts; soldiers for security; food, water, and housing for hundreds of thousands of people. The idea of citizen responsibility that is so key to anti-terror protection is almost meaningless when we?...
...Seoul have recently been circulating reports - impossible to verify, of course - that the North plans a uranium bomb test this autumn.) The Administration will no doubt give negotiations the old college try, one on one, just like Pyongyang wants. But assuming the North is bribeable - and that's a huge assumption - its price for doing a deal now, as the east Asia diplomat acknowledges glumly, "will have gone...
...happy ending and a few laughs along the way, the main character’s struggle to overcome his own grief emerges as the central, and most compelling, narrative. The film opens as Burke arrives in Seattle to lead a grief seminar. He is on the brink of a huge multimedia deal with Unicom, an entertainment conglomerate that wants to promote him as the next Dr. Phil. But his penchant for solitary shots of Grey Goose quickly reveals that he has yet to confront the issues through which he guides his audiences. His wife’s death...
...said money had been set aside for the project before the financial crisis hit. Despite the financial constraints of recent months, the committee did not want to delay the project—even if it meant keeping embellishments less than lavish, Bhatt said.“There was a huge amount of pressure to keep expenses extremely low, so...it’s not as comfy-loungey as some may expect it to be,” said Bhatt, who added that the designers had originally intended to install hardwood floors but ultimately opted for linoleum. “That...
...effort to create a technological shield to protect its mainland from incoming missiles - much of it on long-forgotten and never used systems such as Nike, Nike Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel and Safeguard. The grandest of these, the Safeguard system, was built nearly 40 years ago in Nekoma, N.D. Huge earth-moving machines dug up 1.75 million cu. yd. of rich, black loam from the 470-acre site. Contractors built the base with 160,000 cu. yd. of concrete and 12,000 tons of steel. They crowned their work with a partly buried, 123-ft.-tall pyramid containing the system...