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...Obama, who voted for the border-fence bill back in 2006, the barrier may be best described as a big potential headache. Opponents are already appealing to him to halt construction and re-evaluate the project. But so far, the new Administration has given no indication that it is seriously considering doing so. While it has said it will make comprehensive immigration reform a priority, a spokesperson told TIME that Obama supports the fence "as long as it is one part of a larger strategy on border security that includes more boots on the ground and increased use of technology...
...those 110 miles have proved the most problematic for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency charged with overseeing the project. While much of the U.S. land on the border west of Texas is held by the Federal Government or large landowners, the projects planned for Texas involve negotiating with a hodgepodge of cities, private landowners, tribal lands, farmers and conservationists...
Compiled by two of the nation's largest left-leaning think tanks - the New Democracy Project and the Center for American Progress Action Fund - this collection of 67 agency-by-agency, issue-by-issue essays serves as a bible of progressive thought. It is modeled after 1980's Mandate for Leadership, a book which greatly influenced Ronald Reagan's transition team. Seeing as John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress, was the head of Barack Obama's transition team, it stands to reason that these recommendations will receive serious consideration. (See a gallery of Obama's cabinet members...
...renew orders and that some belt-tightening will be inevitable, at least some employees will have to go. Kris Lakshmikanth, CEO of Bangalore-based the Head Hunters India, says they will most likely be phased out. Most vulnerable are up to 15,000 employees who are paid on a project-by-project basis, he says...
...summit's first day. With the sleek silhouette of a racing motorcycle, but with room for four passengers, the PRT seems to have escaped from the movie Tron. It's enough to turn green-tech nerds giddy, even though it looks like the kind of sci-fi project that may have gotten too complicated for its own good...