But I think we should broaden our approach

About the California Department of TransportationCaltrans manages more than 45,000 miles of California's highway and freewaylanes, provides inter-city rail services, permits more than 400 public-useairports and special-use hospital heliports, and works with local agencies.Caltrans carries out its mission of improving mobility across California withsix primary programs: Aeronautics, Highway Transportation, Mass Transportation,Transportation Planning, Administration and the Equipment Service Center. Thedepartment has been active in moving the people and commerce of California formore than 100 years from a loosely connected web of footpaths and rutted wagonroutes to the sophisticated system that today serves the transportation needs ofmore than 30 million residents. for SpeedInfoTim Johnson, Copyright Business Wire 2009. ) One final week before the first BCS standings means just one final set of projected BCS standings, this week coming straight from the most reliable source for simulating the formula, the BCS Guru.This time, Florida makes the huge jump to No.

1 that everyone had expected them to already hold at the beginning of the season. 1 spot in all available BCS computer rankings.Alabama, likely on the strength of their inter-conference rivalry game against Ole Miss, stays ahead of Texas to claim the No. 2 spot, and Virginia Tech, already considered the best one-loss team in the nation, also stays ahead of the Longhorns at No 3.Texas does hold steady at No. 7 respectively, as both still have a legitimate shot of making some noise late in the season if both are able to win out.Three teams that will likely need a little help from the top follow the Tigers. Ohio State, Cincinnati, and Iowa will probably need a fair few teams to lose ahead of them to make it into the national title picture.TCU and Miami (FL) round out the top 12 of the projected BCS standings and will need more than a little help from here on out.Next week brings the arrival of the first real BCS standings, but without further ado, the current projected BCS standings, as provided by the BCS Guru, and available at BCS Know How, with a 94.166 percent confidence:Rank Team BCS Score1Florida.98622Alabama.94533Virginia Tech.82624Texas.81085Boise State.79046USC.71207LSU.69958Ohio State.67279Cincinnati.656210Iowa.649211TCU.642412Miami (FL).5584 This article is also featured on BCS Know How. By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The world's economic woes cannot be allowed to eclipse other key priorities, including protecting people from climate change and feeding the hungry, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.

In an interview ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Annan also condemned recent fighting in Gaza as "appalling" and said the piracy near Somalia served as another warning of the risks of letting simmering crises fester. "I worry about the economy and the financial situation and its impact on the poor and the vulnerable," he said. "I accept that one needs to get the financial system right, and without credit flowing through the system, the economic recovery will be very slow. But I think we should broaden our approach." Protests over last year's food price spike offered a glimpse into the instability that could result if the world's poorest see themselves sinking further into destitution while trillions of dollars are pumped into banks in rich countries, he said. "Problems like climate change need to be tackled with equal urgency We cannot see them sequentially," he said. "I don't think it is beyond human ingenuity to find an approach that tackles these issues across the board." The soft-spoken Ghanaian said that world leaders needed to take care to ensure their discussions about fixing the economy also reflect basic concerns about jobs, nutrition, and health.