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...Research shows internships help prepare youth for the world of work in other subtle ways. "Collaboration is complex," says Reed Larson, a psychologist at the University of Illinois who studies adolescent development. "Learning to understand a point of view, coordinating strategies, influencing key people - I think it's essential that people start learning these skills at an early age." Schools and jobs at McDonald's don't teach those tools, she adds...
...Reed Kroloff, dean of the Tulane University school of architecture, urges caution to speculators, even locals. "It's foolhardy if they're buying up property in an area where the likelihood of them having a neighbor again is minimal," he argues. "New Orleans East has only 10% to 13% of its population because of power problems. Lakeview, the same. It will be very hard to regenerate their neighborhoods because so many people aren't coming back...
...budget, horrifying the left with 25% cuts in domestic spending. That helped take the political momentum out of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. "Do you pretend [an issue] doesn't exist, or do you find a way to beat it?" asks former Clinton White House domestic-policy director Bruce Reed. "The Clintons have always found a way to beat...
When President Bush visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center last week to witness three U.S. soldiers seriously wounded in Iraq become U.S. citizens, he said that "if somebody's willing to risk their lives for our country, they ought to be full participants in our country." It was an executive order signed by Bush four years ago that allowed this trio, and 35,000 like them, to petition for U.S. citizenship as soon as they donned a U.S. military uniform, instead of waiting the customary three years. So far, 26,000 of them have achieved that goal. Since 9/11...
Such debates don't concern Lopez, who expects to spend another two months recuperating before heading home to Illinois. He and his wife share a small suite in the Fisher House on Walter Reed's grounds with their two daughters. Sasha, 2, and Sofia, born on July 13, are both Americans having been born on U.S. soil. "It was a little bit easier," their Dad says, "for them to become citizens...