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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...rrorist Attacks 383 13. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT 399 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide ... ...on, the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we ha... ... and practices to deter or defeat it.W e learned of fault lines within our government—between foreign and domestic intelligence, and between and withi... ...g an unidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istrati... ..., a “generic” flight plan—prepared to get the aircraft airborne and out of local airspace quickly—incorrectly led the Lang- ley fighters to believe th... ...ll set up some four years earlier. He died in a ferryboat accident on Lake Victoria just a few days after Bin Ladin arrived in Jalalabad, leaving Bin ... ...FBI leadership seemed unwilling to shift resources to terrorism from other areas such as violent crime and drug enforcement; other FBI offi- cials bla...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ry importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central power. So much of apology and expl... ...thousand questions of great public importance, on the question of forms of government, of social and edu- cational necessities, of one’s course and at... ... taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for patriotism is no more than ... ...he long stand- ing game, the getting in, the turning out, the contests and governments, that has just about the same relation to the new perception of... ...ly very noble-spirited and high-class scheme. At a more popular level Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin has battled bravely in the cause of the same foreg... ...owners who attempted to stifle sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and publi... .... None of this has been very fully analyzed, of course (there are enormous areas of valuable research in these mat- ters waiting for people of intelli...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ouse. The thing is as simple as the rule of three. We are off the chain of locality for good and all. It was necessary heretofore for a man to live in... ...f transport are already straining against the limits of existing political areas. Every country contains now an increasing ingredient of unenfranchise... ...heir essential interests wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalis... ...en the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has been in u... ...l-conceived re- building which testify to the aesthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitiou... ...ten practically continuous 26 An Englishman Looks at the World over large areas; there is abundant water and food, and the commonest form of cover is... ...e been regarded as a scandal. But it is not regarded as a scandal that our Government includes men of no more ability than any average assistant behin...

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...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the rings remained uninterruptedly bright, but not so brilliant as before: local irritation with a needle always increased the vividness of the light.... ... of the estuary of the Plata. About fifty years ago, under the old Spanish government, a small colony was established here; and it is still the most s... ...ue Lucanee constantly have their Toldos* on the outskirts of the town. The local government partly supplies them with provisions, by giving them all t... ...anee constantly have their Toldos* on the outskirts of the town. The local government partly supplies them with provisions, by giving them all the old... ...ated often enough (and we know that earthquakes repeatedly affect the same areas in the same manner), form a chain of hills; — and the linear island o... ... Blackheath, we descended from the sandstone platform by the pass of Mount Victoria. To effect this pass, an enormous quantity of stone has been cut t... ...on Islands, or Atolls —Depth at which reef-building Corals can live — Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands — Subsidence of their foundations...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nations once po... ...bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow’d persons of the earth, These are conta... ...statutes, literatures, Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore, We pledge, we dedicate to you. ... ...utes’ clear notes and sounding harps’ cantabile. Now loud approaching drums, Victoria! seest thou in powder smoke the banners torn but flying? the rou... ... an atom, And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood, And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you... ... Ionia’s, India’s—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times’ thick dotted roads, areas, The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature’s pulses r...