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A steel structure for the San Francisco Bay Bridge at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. in China, 11 July 2011. California’s Dept. of Transportation chose this company to make the girders & tower meant to improve the bridge's earthquake resilience.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

Bridge to the Future

| February 16, 2012

"The president's new half-trillion-dollar proposal for highway, bridge, and mass transit projects should be just the beginning of federal and state efforts to promote resilient designs. As the details of how the money will be spent are devised, traditional means through tax breaks or regulations should be coupled with more creative inducements — such as engineering competitions or research and development grants — to promote projects that not only employ workers, but build for a very long future that will bring new hurricanes, earthquakes, and bedlam."

Student Christopher Cano and other Dream Act supporters protesting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Republican presidential candidate debate site in Tampa, Fla., Jan. 23, 2012

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

The DREAM Act Struggles On, Nameless But Alive

| January 26, 2012

"Could the corporate appeal of the H-1B visa program be coupled with the idealism of the DREAM Act for an entirely different way of looking at immigration reform? The White House is content to leave the exact statutory proposal nameless as a nod to a potential compromise that may be more limited than the DREAM Act, but a step in the right direction."