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U.S. Banker August 2006	Bernanke to Paulson: Listen, We're in Charge There's something intoxicating about the Greenspan-Rubin versus Bernanke-Paulson comparison. But the latter duo's performance will be as deeply affected by political pressures and world events as by intellect and good judgment.
CRM August 1, 2006 Colin Beasty	Market Focus: The Public Sector--Eye on the State Local and national governments are turning to CRM to satisfy the citizen-as-consumer.
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future.
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research.
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Tree Rings Reveal Overestimate in Western Water When a severe drought hit the Colorado River Basin area between 2000 and 2004, people began to question whether current practices for managing the river would be adequate for managing future water demands. One recent study suggests an answer: probably not.
Geotimes August 2006 Wang & Burns	Oregon's Recipe for Mitigating Earthquakes Oregon's recent development of new earthquake safety policies, which include a long-term state-funded grant program to help rehabilitate high-risk public schools and emergency facilities, serves as a good case study for addressing seismic hazards on a community level.
Geotimes August 2006 Steven Quane	It's Not Hairspray: America's Need for Science Education We are facing real and immediate energy and environmental challenges that require genuine and progressive leadership to solve. Greater public understanding of science and sound scientific processes have the potential to transform our society.
Popular Mechanics August 2006 Tom Colligan	What Went Wrong: East River Rescue After a broken tramway left commuters stranded 200 ft. up, it took daring action and ingenuity to get them down.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 JR Minkel	A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 William Sweet	Climate Emergency If you're still not convinced that global warming is the most urgent and important problem facing the world today, see Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim, or if you just can't stand the man, read his book.
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