The Center's "Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Reports" are part of a broader 2012 initiative, the Coalition for the Common Defense, to educate and engage the American public on the importance of maintaining a strong national defense.

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Doesn't that make it even more important to educate people about the common challenges they will face, so that they're better armed to deal with the remaining messiness?

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The James Randi Educational Foundation, which works to educate people about the common tricks and sleight-of-hand techniques that swindlers who purport to be psychics or some other contact with a supernatural world.

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Officials are also hoping to educate people not to transport firewood to other counties, a common method of spreading the beetle.

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