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...worst bottlenecks. We shouldn't even think about new bridges in rural Alaska or rural anywhere when a quarter of our existing bridges are structurally deficient. Before Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers spent more money in Louisiana than in any other state - most of it on useless and destructive navigation projects with influential godfathers in Congress - but it never completed those levees around New Orleans. Now the stimulus could include forward-looking efforts to help rebuild the city's natural and man-made defenses - or more-of-the-same projects that would increase the risk of another expensive...
...possible to imagine that, secure in its military power, Israel could continue for years in a state of neither all-out war nor true peace, always willing to fight bitter but limited conflicts of the kind it did in Lebanon and Gaza. But military might would be useless against the threat that looms within its borders. Israel's population of 7.1 million is today divided into 5.4 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs. But if you include Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank, they may already have a slender majority; and given their higher birthrate, the gap will widen...
...maglev takes a load of hardware and a ton of power and is useless for small, simple kinds of engineering. The new breakthrough - achieved by a joint team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Harvard University and published in a paper in the journal Nature - provides an alternative...
Fifteen-year-old Mahzarin R. Banaji says she dreamed of living the adventurous life of a secretary upon graduating from high school because she believed that further academic pursuit was useless and was thirsting for an independent life away from her home in Secunderabad, India...
With so many still suffering, Kenyans are dubious that the country will properly reckon with what happened. Kenyan leaders have agreed to create a tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators, but rights groups say the proposed law creating it is so full of holes as to render the tribunal useless. "The real perpetrators and the real financiers will actually go scot-free," says Ruth Oniang'o, who runs a rural outreach program and lost in her bid for a parliamentary seat in 2007. "This is the Kenya I know and the Kenya I understand. Money and power talk, and those...