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Alone? Well, maybe defenses would be able to stop him. Probably not, but maybe. When matched with Fitzpatrick and Harvard’s aerial assault? The latest edition of the Crimson’s record book and its new primary author should answer that...
...dramatic aerial photo of the Maldivian city of Malé showed not only the vulnerability of low-lying settlements to rising oceans but also one of the contributors to global warming. The island's dense urban surface of streets and buildings leaves scant room for vegetation, which absorbs heat-trapping carbon dioxide. A sea wall may protect Malé from flooding, but more trees and parks would help as well...
After Congress declared war in 1917, Roosevelt decried the War Department’s lack of preparation. He had already started to think about the 1920 nomination when his youngest son, Quentin, a pilot, was killed during an aerial fight with the Germans. Six months later, Roosevelt himself suffered a fatal blood clot. He never regained the coveted office that he left...
...sides of the dike. They cause earthquakes that shatter the dike's foundation and make deep cracks that zigzag up the sides. Antipersonnel bombs have also been used; they enter the dike on an angle, lodging underneath and exploding later. This damage does not show up on aerial reconnaissance photographs. I am told that if these cracks aren't repaired in time, the pressure from the water--which will soon reach six or seven meters above the level of the fields--will cause the weakened dikes to give way and endanger the entire eastern region of the Red River Delta...
...today's world, where aerial photographs can show us the precise location of Manhattan's manholes and the Internet can inform us in seconds how to travel most efficiently from Tiananmen Square to the Champs Elys?es, maps have become monotonously correct. Everyone can have them. Almost everyone can use them. But their precision and ubiquity have made them humdrum. They intrigue us only slightly more than garden shears and can openers...