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...implement preventive measures or deter residents from rebuilding in disaster-prone areas like Dauphin Island, Ala., obliterated by Hurricane Frederic and subsequent storms. SUCCESS FAILURE Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 WIDENING REACH Reagan reinterprets FEMA's role to fit the Cold War, granting it power to cope with a nuclear attack and even, reportedly, implement martial law--prompting clashes over jurisdiction with the Justice Department. Meanwhile, underqualified political appointees fill the agency's bureaucracy; in 1985 FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida steps down amid allegations of fraud. SUCCESS FAILURE George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 UNPREPARED FEMA's lackluster response...
...lost to Barbara Boxer. At one point, to drum up press coverage about Fong's contention that Boxer did not take terrorism seriously, Schmidt arranged for a man in work clothes to disrupt one of Fong's own press conferences by lighting a Sterno candle to symbolize a chemical attack. "Schmidt always was thinking outside the box," says Fong...
...general, Schmidt plays against type. While he can deliver a political attack on television like a sledgehammer, he is just as likely to type e-mails that seem written by a 16-year-old: "How r u." Or he will answer the phone like a surfer kid: "Hey, dude." He will talk a lot about his fascination with sharks and his fear of rattlesnakes, the pests that surround his California home and once bit his dog. No single quote has upset him more over the years than the claim that he shouted "Kill! Kill! Kill!" as he worked...
...newly created cells made insulin in diabetic mice, though they were not cured. But if the experiment's approach proves viable, it might lead to treatments like growing new heart cells after a heart attack or nerve cells to treat disorders like ALS, formerly Lou Gehrig's disease...
...throughout their neighborhoods trumpeting Anwar's alleged transgressions, while giant video screens at street corners in the area replayed video clips of Saiful's televised accusations. "I told my teenage daughter not to look up at the banners," said Fatih. "It was so terrible, so shameful the way they attack Anwar. Praise...