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While reading about the Gulf Coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina...
Can FEMA be fixed? Administration officials tell TIME they plan to rework the agency's makeup and responsibilities--and perhaps even change its name to shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish...
The looters, murderers and other degenerates who fired on rescue workers in New Orleans should have been shot at by the police to maintain civilized order. Taking food and water from a grocery store in order to survive is understandable, but stealing luxury items just because there is an opportunity...
Carlos Clot, private eye, has seen it all. Born just before the oil ran out, he has endured Spain's election of a communist government, the resulting U.S. invasion and the rise of English as the official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway...
So it is the NIH that rides to the rescue. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) paid $42.6 million to study existing drugs for schizophrenia. It's money well spent, says institute director Dr. Thomas Insel, but "that's money we can't put into developing the next generation...