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...rebuilding sewer systems, bridges, schools and other ailing parts of the nation's infrastructure. After the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in 2007, killing 13, the National Transportation Safety Board identified some 740 bridges of similar age and design in the U.S. They'll be targeted for repair. But Obama believes that the country could invest wisely in a new generation of green jobs as well, in fields such as alternative energy and advanced biofuels. He has long promised to make the economy more energy efficient, but his plans in this area have always been somewhat murky. What...
...meantime, he's quite happy to keep drawing $300 a month from the U.S. military. In his spare time, he tools around in a makeshift laboratory at home - these days, he says, he mostly helps friends and neighbors repair malfunctioning computers. His one connection to his old life: jihadi websites, where he follows the fortunes of his onetime employers. "I read on the Internet that al-Qaeda are using some of my triggers against the Americans in Afghanistan," he says with giddy excitement. "It is fantastic...
...thing is certain already: when the tally from Friday evening's voting is in, France's Socialist Party (PS) will be headed by a woman for the first time in its history. Once installed in that leadership role, however, that new patronne must find a way to repair the deep and bitter divisions that have plagued the party for more than a decade - and reverse its impotence in time to challenge conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 race for the Elys...
...weeks before the resort welcomed its first paying guests with a soft opening in September, a fire caused by welders engulfed the hotel's lobby. That produced a public-relations nightmare of flames and smoke billowing from the site aspiring to become Dubai's next icon. Workmen managed to repair most of the damage in time, but then the Atlantis was hit by "Free Sammy" campaigners demanding the release from the aquarium of a 13 ft.-long whale shark on the grounds that it was a member of a vulnerable species; a Kerzner spokesman says the young fish will...
With this massive sum of money necessary for maintaining our current infrastructure as well as meeting growth and repair needs, and with the current and possible public funding levels insufficient to even graze those needs, it is apparent that new funding solutions are needed. Private funding has a significant potential role to play in repairing America’s aging infrastructure, as it has for years all over the globe. Public–private partnerships, or PPPs, are defined by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as “institutional arrangement in which a private entity assumes some level...