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...with teaching people how to look and how to see,” he says. “It’s a reality-based form of photography, with a direct relationship to the world.” It’s also a matter of survival. “We’re being forced to do it anyway—the processors who used to develop our film are going out of business,” Merrill says. “This is the new standard,” Rozovtsky says. And when asked whether she thinks...
...gosh-super-incredible societal situation, epitomized by shots of Hillary and Obama. Look how far we’ve come—we went to space, and now non-whites and chicks are running for office! “It don’t really matter anyways,” Rob Thomas seems to say. “I got this voice that makes anything sound good: ‘well it’s cool, cool, baby it’s all cool, now it’s over for me and it’s over...
...Theoretically, it's a great idea, albeit an expensive one ($25 million including all of the pre-exercise planning and post-exercise analysis that takes place over a two-year period). The most important thing you can do before a disaster is establish relationships among the people who will matter most. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, the only thing more destructive than storm surges are distrustful, territorial and paranoid bureaucrats. "The last thing you want to see at the scene of a disaster are people exchanging business cards," one emergency preparedness expert once told me. And this particular simulation...
...comprehensive simulation dubbed Hurricane Pam, drills don't always translate into progress. If they're going to work, they have to be realistic - and therein lies the problem with TOPOFF. Guess who won't be invited to it? You and me, or many other average folks, for that matter. Sorry, the public and the media have never been allowed to fully participate in the nation's most elaborate counterterrorism drills. Which is sort of like holding a band practice without the drums, the bass or the sound system...
...Islamic radicals, the legitimacy of attacking the Cole was never in doubt. The U.S. was at war with Islam, and the Cole, a Navy guided missile destroyer, was a military target. It didn't matter in the least to the attackers that in reality there wasn't a war between the U.S. and Islam. Or that the Cole's sailors were non-combatants...