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...from the rest of the world. Landing in this blisteringly hot Malian town in the southwestern corner of the Sahara feels a little like arriving at the end of the earth. Dirt tracks melt into the featureless desert sands. Chickens peck in the shade between mud-walled houses. Little wonder that Timbuktu is a byword for remoteness. (Read: "Out of Africa: Saharan Solar Energy...
...only because of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s blunders—formaldehyde-laced trailers, for example—but also because when you’re the destination for so many mission trips and “disaster tours,” you might begin to wonder if the rest of America actually sees you as fellow citizens. A popular bumper sticker even declares, “Louisiana: Third World and Proud of It”. And there are those inescapable issues of race and class: Many of the residents are poor and black, while...
...just ask, every time you say, "If you like what you have, you can keep it," I wonder what about if you don't like what you have? What if you think your employer's plan is too expensive or you don't like the doctors that are on the list? The House and the Senate have two different approaches on this. Here's what we're trying to balance. On the one hand we want to make sure that employers don't dump their coverage and try to just put the burden onto the government. That's been...
...These programs ask students like P to write about the hardships they have endured. Their difficult experiences become their qualifications for acceptance. The implication is that these resilient students, perhaps like Judge Sotomayor, have something important to share—because of race, poverty, and even plain adversity. I wonder: How can one compare the wisdom granted by different kinds of hardships? I also wonder about the opportunities available to poor high school students who live outside of New York City. Do they have the chance to attend affordable colleges, and write about their inner selves...
...public option could. The legislation includes provisions for a public plan, but such an approach would be triggered only if the co-op plan doesn't prove to work in certain states or locales - a backup model based on President George W. Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. Many wonder if that will garner enough votes in the Senate, since it will most likely lose votes from both ends of the spectrum...