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...Despite the devastation of the 2004-2005 season, one mild season in 2006 has plunged Americans in hurricane-vulnerable states into a dangerous amnesia," said Ron Sachs, executive director of the National Hurricane Survival Initiative, a public education and safety outreach partnership between government organizations, relief agencies and corporations. The initiative works with the National Hurricane Center, FEMA, The National Emergency Management Association, the Salvation Army and the State of North Carolina, as well as corporate partners including Travelers, Plylox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poll: U.S. Unready for Hurricanes | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...species of butterflies to the region, where eco-tourism is now a $150 million annual business. Hunters - including Vice President Dick Cheney - spend millions hunting white wing doves, which flourish in the brushy habitat. "This is the most biologically diverse region in North America," said Nancy Brown, public outreach officer for the refuge. This rich biodiversity has helped revive little border towns like Roma, a former river steamboat port, whose picturesque 19th century dusty plaza now boasts the World Birding Center. Looking down from the Roma Bluffs towards a large swath of brush near the international bridge, birders can watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Border Security Bad for Nature? | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...Grande, which has a long symbiotic relationship with Mexico. One environmental advisor to the Bush Administration who serves on a border issues panel established after NAFTA was passed told TIME there has been a "heartening response" in border communities to its recommendation that DHS conduct a national outreach program on the environmental and cultural impact of "The Fence." But, he adds, DHS is so focused on security that it has so far has failed to reach out adequately to both environmental groups and Mexican neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Border Security Bad for Nature? | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...Vistek the new approach has meant "a lot of responsibility that the pay grade has never really had before." In al Qaim, he says Marines are now tasked with such community outreach at the rank-and-file level and with every contact with Iraqi civilians. Says Vistek: "The responsibility went from, 'oh, that's on the [lieutenant]' to, 'Holy s---, my [unit's] responsible for three patrols a day? Wow.'" That new function combined with the old but still necessary task of fighting insurgents can be overwhelming. Gove, like other Marine commanders in al Qaim, is mindful that he risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting a New Kind of War in Iraq | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...African and African American Studies Kofi Agawu is returning to Princeton University after he was hired last year from the New Jersey school by former Af-Am Department Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. His wife, Christiana Agawu, who is the director of African outreach at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, will leave with him. “We decided to leave because we believe that Harvard is great but Princeton fits us better professionally and in family life also,” she said. —Staff...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hip Hop Scholar Offered Tenure | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

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