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If the Farmers' Almanac is correct and the weather warms up, windows installation could start soon in the Bluffton Hospital construction project. That's on the tentative schedule for next week's progress at the construction site.

Here are the other projects on tap at the hospital for next week:

The United States needs to invest more in development and diplomacy to address root causes of insecurity worldwide. And in Iraq, Afghanistan and other global hot spots, local residents must be empowered to build peace and security from the grass roots.

That's according to Dr. Lisa Schirch, an Eastern Mennonite University professor who has spent considerable time with Iraqis and Afghans-both in America and their countries-and with U.S. military leaders, whom she says are now telling Congress that it must rethink what security looks like.