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...Corps' ideals of service, honor and sacrifice. Campbell was soon a lieutenant in charge of a platoon thrust into Ramadi, Iraq in 2004, right as that city's insurgency blossomed. Unlike Fallujah, a city full of jihadists with very few civilians, Ramadi was "a much blurrier battle, a classic urban counterinsurgency, a never-ending series of engagements throughout the heart of a teeming city where our faceless enemies blended seamlessly into a surrounding populace of nearly 35,000 civilians." In Joker One, Campbell writes of his almost eight months in Iraq, with all the blood and confusion that one expects...
...Once operational, the trains will facilitate long-distance commuting, putting urban jobs in reach of exurban and small-town workers. Faster travel will encourage companies to relocate further outside of major cities, where real estate is cheaper and tax incentives are more forthcoming. This would be especially useful for revitalizing regions that are hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs, like the Upper Midwest and upstate New York. Funding for rail projects should be considered an investment in America’s long-term economic robustness...
...home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students were homeless--probably more. "I had a whole array of students who were angry, depressed, not getting the rest they needed," Cash says. It led him to ponder an unusual proposition: What if the best way to help kids in impoverished urban neighborhoods is to get them...
...most human beings can be persuaded, especially with cash. The study found that among hospitals that had implemented digital records - which tended to be teaching hospitals and larger hospitals in urban areas - 82% had received additional reimbursement for EHR use, and 75% got financial incentives for adopting the system. It also helped to have adequately trained staff and available tech support, which the authors suggest we'll need more of to make progress - particularly when it comes to the exchange of health information between hospitals. Try getting any two offices in any industry to integrate their computer systems so that...
...else. Even now, musicians living on the Cape Flats, the massive expanse of gritty slums and working-class townships to which nonwhite Capetonians were removed, find themselves isolated from the city and from each other. "What we're doing through music and culture is trying to contribute to our urban regeneration," says Coffeebeans Routes co-founder Iain Harris...