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...renewed speculation into a lingering question: has the government learned its lesson from Hurricane Katrina? Although New Orleans was largely spared during this bout of severe weather, snafus from both storms indicate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) still has no broad, comprehensive flood management plan, and lacks the ability to coordinate effectively with state and local officials. Chairman of FEMA, Michael Chertoff, has made proposals for improvement that include satellite tracking of relief vehicles and specialized reconnaissance teams. In the face of the deep institutional problems, however, these solutions are far from panaceas. As the recent hurricanes have...
...conducted in Britain found a range of celebrity-worship styles, from harmless adulation to debilitating addiction. Other research has documented a so-called celebrity-worship syndrome, in which the idolatry becomes all-consuming, much in the way that alcohol and drugs can define an addict's life. Initially, the lack of reciprocation in these relationships can be comforting and even, as Gabriel showed, helpful. But continued one-sided relationships can turn pathological. "We would never make the argument that these relationships can or should replace real relationships," she says...
...unified North America of the near-future (dates have been replaced by sponsor names, such as the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch it on a loop, mesmerized until they die of dehydration or starvation or lack of sleep. Reading it, you realize how soul-sad lonely you are. And Wallace creates that effect, like Pynchon, while being laugh-out-loud funny...
...Delhi blasts once again raise questions over India's ability to prevent terror attacks. There have been 13 major incidents in the past five years, and each time the same issues have been raised - lack of coordination between state and central security and investigation agencies, and intelligence and police forces being inadequately staffed, equipped and trained. Yet, as the regularity of the attacks shows, little has changed to deter terror organizations from striking at will...
...parried questions like a fencer. Pressed about her lack of foreign policy experience, she pivoted to her work on oil and gas policy, calling energy "a foundation of national security." Asked if she'd ever traveled outside the country before her trip last year to Kuwait to visit U.S. soldiers, she spun around to call it a trip of a lifetime, since it also included visits with wounded soldiers in Germany - a stop the McCain campaign repeatedly charged Obama with refusing to make during his trip overseas in July. Asked if she'd ever met a head of state...