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...Craigslist, painted dollar green and emblazoned with the motto "ForeclosureToursRUs.com." But most people had no idea how to buy a house from a bank, and many were too scared to try, so he decided to lead tours of the new economic frontier. He is a revivalist for this apocalyptic age, living an American story as old as the pilgrims and the 49ers and every pioneer who ever saw opportunity where everyone else saw only ruin. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...growth - the city is spending $30 million to raise the pumps and other electrical equipment at the Rockaway plant well above sea level. The overhaul is just one part of New York's groundbreaking PlaNYC - a long-term blueprint to grow the U.S.'s biggest city green in the age of global warming. "This is about making the city more sustainable," says Sapienza. (See pictures of New York going green...
When news of his death on March 27 at the age of 86 was announced by his family, it was accompanied by a stylish and anecdotal 3-page tribute that recalled his coverage of the Korean War; how he'd become the first American television reporter based in Moscow during the Cold War; and his assignments in Rome, Tokyo and Vienna before his pioneering work as a full-time economics correspondent...
...appalling as you'd expect, and Cullen doesn't spare us a second of them. To assemble a definitive timeline of the attack, Cullen has had to resolve hundreds of wildly divergent eyewitness accounts. This was, as he puts it, "the first major hostage standoff of the cell phone age," so as the nightmare unfolded, students were calling local news stations, which then fed their panicked stories back into classrooms via TVs in real time, creating a feedback loop that distorted their experience of the event even as it was happening. Maybe the most surprising thing to come...
...Akio is extremely famous in Japan and is one of the most promising new artists in the country. Everybody knows him.”The “sweet and talented young artist,” as described by Fukai, found his passion for ceramics at an early age. “I began studying ceramics while I was in high school but attended college as a Philosophy and Literature major,” Niisato said through a translator during an interview. “I joined a ceramic art club as a hobby but found that my passion...