Word: reconstructionism
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The federal government cannot afford to foot the entire bill for reconstruction and relocation projects related to disaster relief. I propose that all federal funding for the war in Iraq be diverted to the hurricane-recovery effort. Then the money needed to pay for the war would come from members...
Long before Hurrican Katrina exposed the racial and economic canyons of New Orleans for all the nation to see, Mayor Ray Nagin swept into office with high hopes of bridging those gaps. So how is it that now, in the wake of Katrina's devastation and dislocation, the Big Easy...
Abraham Lincoln understood what post-Civil War Reconstruction would demand. Franklin Roosevelt understood what recovery from the Depression would require. This President doesn't seem to understand what recuperating from Katrina is all about. I wish he were as interested in helping the country come to grips with it as...
In the weeks ahead, there's also the challenge and burden of reconstruction. ?It's a gigantic task, and we must be very quick," says Aiyaz, as he gestures at the Himalayan peaks around him. ?Come November and December, winter will set in.?
Suddenly old warnings about flu, which had seemed so remote, were sounding a lot scarier. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared in September, once again, that as far as an influenza pandemic is concerned, the question is not if but when, not whether millions would die but how many millions...