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>> they needed managerial horsepower to support the increase in people and budget. glp i did not know enough about al-qaida. just what little i had read in the press. it was not my specialty. but, you know, if youve had 25 years of experience, you come with a pretty good sense of what needs to be done, even if its a new target for you. pretty quickly, you learn, but you need to learn about that target. i became the head of the computer center just about the time when we were dealing with all of ...

Increase in people and budget. i did not know enough about al-qaeda. just what little i had read in the press. it was not my specialty. but, you know, if youve had 25 years of experience, you come with a pretty good sense of what needs to be done, even if its a new target for you. pretty quickly, you learn, but you need to learn about that target. i became the head of the computer center just about the time when we were dealing with all of these threats. i mean, it was daily, constant intelligen...

>> they needed managerial horsepower to support the increase in people and budget. glp i did not know enough about al-qaida. just what little i had read in the press. it was not my specialty. but, you know, if youve had 25 years of experience, you come with a pretty good sense of what needs to be done, even if its a new target for you. pretty quickly, you learn, but you need to learn about that target. i became the head of the computer center just about the time when we were dealing with all of ...

>> i thought it would be a great place to find my direction. >> he ended up finding a lot more than that. his degree landsed him a job in the colleges computer center and later a promotion. >> i was making $62,000. i felt pretty good about how things went even without having a bachelors degree. >> ethan is one of many community college graduatings proving that a four-year university isnt the only gateway to the middle class. according to a georgetown university study, 28% of americans with assoc...

>> reporter: he found a lot more than that. his degree landed him a job in the colleges computer center and late err promotion. >> i was making $62,000. i felt pretty good about how things went even without having a bachelors. >> reporter: ethan is one of many community college graduates proving that a four-year university isnt the only gateway to the middle class. according to a georgetown university study, 28% of americans with associates degrees make more than those with bachelors degrees. >>...

Not well recycle it. most have gone to students here locally. also, we have a separate section of the computers we refurbish which have gone overseas to community centers. >> reporter: to places in kenya, cameroon, the philippines, mexico, and sri lanka where the computer center was named after the wen team. >> when we found out that there was a place pretty literally half way across the world that was actually named after our project. >> reporter: but wen wanted to do more so they introduced an...

Computers, it all adds up and especially back when everybody was using crt monitors, each one had between four and eight pounds of lead, add it up and its a lot of lead going into our ground fill and going into our ground water. >> reporter: driven to find creative solutions for his communitys problems, alex begin win, western innovations networks were with his peers. >> it takes up a lot of time. you really have to we dedicated to doing something this big. >> i love helping people. i love that ...

Workers themselves. they were able to ride in on rail to the same point to we were able to get to the other night, and once they got to that point, they are required to -- because of the debris thats on the track, they have to dismount and they have to walk about a mile and a half to get to the point where we had gotten to the other night. our hopes was to establish a fresh air establish up at what we call the mule train, basically the para center and computer center of the long wall, we would l...