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...local public policy and neighborhood action, second, launching a non-partisan citizens’ commission, modeled on the Chicago Crime Commission, to serve civil rights check on the secret data generated by the Boston Regional Intelligence Council which compiles “intelligence” data on alleged high-impact players involved in violent gang activity. This is important because of the potential for the work of the council to violate the civil rights of young people the overwhelming majority of whom will Black and poor. It is crucial that Harvard’s Black intelligentsia no longer permit...
...will be split among nine areas for which Oberstar is responsible: highways and bridges, transit, rail, aviation, environmental infrastructure, Army Corps of Engineers, brownfields, federal buildings, and Coast Guard and maritime administration. All the money will go to projects that are shovel-ready - meaning they've completed their environmental-impact studies, the engineering and design plans have been approved and certified, and in the case of roads, the rights of way have been acquired. The projects are all outside the regular transportation process. Most transportation infrastructure is financed through a formula - usually an 80%-20% split between the federal...
...Brace for impact." - Sullenberger's announcement to those aboard the flight, as recounted by multiple passengers on the plane, New York Times...
...take my shoes off. I leave them on in the event that I need to run through a burning plane. I wear lace-up shoes. In the event of an impact, people's shoes have been known to fly off them, particularly flip-flops and other "convenient" shoes. Typically, people have a couple of pops at the bar, put on earphones; they put on blindfolds, they take off their shoes, and they go to sleep. But research has shown that the first three minutes of a plane flight and the last eight - this is called the rule of plus three/minus...
...country. At least four of the founding 12 had once been registered Republicans. Most had stories of helping the Obama campaign; all had internalized Obama's message of bottom-up, people-powered political change. "For anything that is going on in southern Maryland, Barack Obama personally can have an impact - through us," explained Leandre. (See pictures of Obama on Flickr...