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...report, which was also sponsored by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and four other public health schools, comes at a time when the federal government is distributing federal preparedness funds based on risk, with a particular focus on high-risk urban areas, according to the 2006 Homeland Security budget...
...potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources are spread too thin, they are useless, says Chertoff: "One hazmat suit in every town does nobody any good." Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas has a different take. "If we are just safe in the urban areas and not in the heartland then America is not safe," he says. If Chertoff doesn't "pay close attention to the desires of Congress," Pryor warns, "he could very easily meet a lot of resistance." The secretary's retort: "Not everyone is going to be happy...
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon, who teaches Foreign Cultures 90 “Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion,” says he tries to help seniors by exempting them from attending section...
...danger, if this trend continues, is that people will withdraw within their walled communities and never venture again into the Internet's public spaces. It's a process similar to the one that created the suburbs and replaced the great cities with shopping malls and urban sprawl. The magic of the Net is that it thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will...
...responded by saying his ultimate goal is to demonstrate that “art can be rural or urban, popular or elite, and white or rainbow-hued...