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...life and perpetuate a cycle of poverty and welfare dependence. I am willing to invest in programs that train poor people for employment and allow them to contribute to society by paying taxes like the rest of us. Let's have a Congressional Antipoverty Caucus, as Klein suggests, and base aid on economic need rather than race. I don't want to give handouts. I want our money used to invest in the future of the impoverished...
...nearly 30 hours after the quake hit before requesting additional support from the U.S. in the form of eight military helicopters that could ferry aid to the quake region. In the Indian Kashmirian mountain village of Skee, residents received no help for five days, even though it overlooks a base for thousands of Indian troops. Army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told TIME that helicopter crews were evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians alike on the basis of the severity of their injuries alone. But several days after the quake, Skee villagers said they had received no drops of food, water...
...Balakot, Pakistan, a town of 20,000 people that was reduced to a muddy smear, it took the army three days to arrive, even though its base is only 20 miles away. When troops finally converged on a collapsed school building to help dig out some 200 students trapped inside, enraged parents hurled stones at the soldiers. As choppers touched down in wrecked mountain hamlets, survivors mobbed the crews and fought one another for blankets and biscuits. Some Pakistani officials reported that several times stranded earthquake victims clung to a chopper as it lifted off, nearly causing it to crash...
...young, too isolated from the rest of the world.”“So then where did all these people, your fans, come from?”“The internet. Australia might be disconnected but we aren’t. Most of our fan base lives online.”“I heard about you guys online.”“And that’s why it’s such a hopeful and great time for music,” he took another sip.“You know...
...stop with New York. The company plans to triple the number of destinations accessible to Boston travelers by the year 2006, according to its press release. Pheonix, San Diego, and Seattle are among the cities included on the list. “JetBlue is committed to growing our Boston base,” says Hamm. “Bostonians have seen a significant growth in that market from JetBlue and we have received great feedback from the customers...