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Rebuilding a resilient nation.(Viewpoint essay)
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Two days after this summer's rush-hour collapse of the I-35W bridge, I found myself standing along the southern bank of the Mississippi River, looking out on the twisted wreckage of what had been a major transportation lifeline for the Twin Cities. As a homeland security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of a recent book on catastrophic disasters, I had been enlisted by CNN to visit the site to help put this tragedy into a wider context. I had made a similar visit six years before to the still smoldering ruins of the Twin Towers. Both experiences were deeply sobering, but what I found particularly painful and ...
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