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I don't know where to start looking, but I have an idea that may help a lot of people - the other week I saw a news article where the commentator was interviewing the CEO of a large American company who was lamenting the lack of trained American engineers/scientists/mathemiticians to fill the job vacancies he had. The showed the two in India where he said he would have to get his new employees from or move his company there to get trained workers. He missed it entirely. The Indian students were educated by the state - free. Since they have no huge college loan to pay off when they graduate, they can afford to take the lower salaries. Americans are at a huge disadvantage when they take their first job because of this debt problem. Why didn't the CEO take students - 9th grade or thereabouts who show a proficiency and desire to take on the task of learning to be an engineer/scientist and pay for their entire education. The student's payback would be to would have to work at the company for a specified amount of time - that way, the CEO could get trained employees, the trained employees could get educated without the high debt problems associated with getting a degree today and we wouldn't have to go offshore for any of it.
Did anyone ever talk about how to improve conditions for survivors of earthquake, etc...immediately after the disastor strikes? Using Haiti as an example, the Red Cross helped to a degree, but it's been a while and they're still living in tents; partly because of the corruption in the government and partly because a better alternative wasn't ready. The alternative is to design simple housing, much the same as Lego building blocks - out of plastic. The floor/walls/ceiling could be assembled as quickly as a tent and they would be out of the elements quickly. The design
could use a roof that would hold rain water for use and keep the deaths down from the bad water they now get from ditches. I have some very simple designs; if this were done a few years ago when the Turks had that earthquake and hundreds of people died because the tents they were given to live in couldn't stand up to the cold weather and constant rain. A plastic home would have kept them out of the elemnts and wouldn't have fallen apart in subsequent tremors. It's a lot better than the trailers they still have no use for after Katrina, and a log cheaper. Help us help the world!!!