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Reinvesting in Cities
Posted in Fireign on Feb 11th, 2009
With the nation’s governors and mayors imploring the incoming Obama administration to launch our nation’s largest domestic federal spending program since Eisenhower’s national highway program, I wonder whether this time we’ll get it right. For the sake of America’s cities, I pray that we do because our most recent massive federal spending programs tore America’s [...]
How to Feel Important When What You “Do” Is Not
Posted in Fireign on Feb 9th, 2009
Being unemployed (like me) gives you a lot of time for introspection. It also tests your self-esteem, since much of our identity is wrapped up in what we do for a living (as opposed to how we live our lives, how we treat others, or how we act when no one is watching). For now, what I do everyday consists of sleeping too late, Facebooking too much, [...]
Is Climate Change a security issue?
Posted in Fireign on Feb 4th, 2009
That depends on who you ask. Climate change is in fact many issues to many people. As if climate science were not complicated enough, political considerations dominate most discussions. Climate change is an economic problem to industrialized nations. It is an environmental problem to the world’s conservationists. The political majority of developing countries argue it [...]
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ” -Ben Franklin
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” -George Bernard Shaw
“our security emanates from the justness of our cause.” -Barack Obama, Jan 20th, 2009
Thank you goes out to President Obama for closing [...]
I got this email yesterday, and while I’d by lying if I said I didn’t think it was a little misleading, it’s still an interesting perspective, so I thought I’d share:
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one [...]
MDR-Tuberculosis and You!
Posted in Fireign on Jan 28th, 2009
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis often causes no symptoms, since the person’s immune system acts to “wall off” the bacteria. 1 in 3 people in the world are infected with TB bacteria, but most don’t become ill until [...]
A few weeks ago, we finished a new round of interviews for interns and first years. While it’s a fun opportunity for us to meet lots of exciting and excited new young people, it’s also a very reflective time to challenge the norms and paradigms we become so accustomed to in our daily routines. However, [...]
The Power of Music
Posted in Fireign on Jan 21st, 2009
Music has been a major part of my life since I was a kid. Similarly, it has also been a big part of Fireign from the start. The interconnectivity of music in my personal and professional life often causes me to ask the question, “what is it that makes music so powerful?”
Music has the ability [...]
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