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...drinking water for the county's 2.3 million residents. The GRS is believed to be the world's largest facility dedicated to what's known as indirect potable reuse (if you're in favor of it) or toilet-to-tap (if you're not). But there's a better term: water recycling, and it might be the world's answer to the clean-water crisis. (See pictures of the world's water crisis...
They also suggested the government's role in spurring scientific innovation should include improving infrastructure - from labs to computer networks - and making long-term funding commitments to researchers. "Funding for science is so shaky, scientists themselves end up being risk-averse," says Holt - a lack of certainty that he feels tends to stifle innovation...
...City Councillor Craig A. Kelley said that while the pension fund has surely suffered, only a long-term perspective could provide the necessary context to examine its value...
...Quinn would not have a long stint in office before having to think about running for a full term in 2010. Perhaps ironically, among those jostling for the executive suite is Madigan, who is considered by some to be a front runner for the job - and whose father, Illinois house speaker Michael Madigan, decided Monday that impeachment proceedings will go forward...
...long-term fix is to build a new Somalia. Nation-building is something the Bush administration initially shied away from in Afghanistan, allowing the Taliban to regroup, and came round to in Iraq, with mixed and frequently bloody results. China provides a better model for nation-building in Africa, focusing almost wholly on the continent's commercial potential - and, as a byproduct, the stabilizing effects of poverty alleviation - by pumping billions into infrastructure in war-torn territories such as Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Angola is now stable, if horribly corrupt; Congo is still...