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...environment. Last spring, he shipped in tons of sand to build four urban beaches that were also a hit with residents, while inspiring dozens of comedy skits about plump sunbathers walking through gridlocked traffic. Ebrard has also built miles of cycle paths, on which he's posed for cameras atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...
Venezuela may be sitting atop one of the world's largest oil deposits--Chávez claims there are more than 200 billion bbl. in the Orinoco Belt, which, if true, is nearly 10 times as many proven reserves as the U.S. has. But most of the stuff is extra-heavy crude. Tapping and processing that tarlike oil require billions in investment. Analysts say PDVSA has been slow to start those projects, including joint stakes with China's CNPC, Brazil's Petrobras and Iran's Petropars in southeastern Venezuela...
...center of Harvard’s scientific campus in Cambridge, the LISE building lies mostly underground, with a wall of glass that allows natural light to permeate the lower floors. In order to maintain the original walkways in the area, the upper portion of the building rests atop three enormous columns. LISE also preserves the lawn of the Music Building, under which now lies the cleanroom—an advanced, temperature-controlled dust-free environment that is one of the building’s most important scientific resources...
...central Paris in a rucher école (hive school) next to an apiary established in the Luxembourg Gardens in 1856 that houses about a million bees. Beekeeping in Paris is, well, a hive of activity, with colonies living on private balconies, at an inner-city nunnery and, famously, atop both the Opéra Bastille and the Palais Garnier, the latter still tended by Jean Paucton, 73. Paucton's bees forage in the Tuileries Gardens, the chestnut trees of the Champs-Élysées and the linden trees of the Palais Royal. The honey they produce sells at a premium price...
...didn’t really matter, because the heart of the Ivy schedule was approaching and the Crimson needed to recover. Recover it did, with Pizzotti leading the way. By midseason, coaches and players were calling him the most improved player on the team, and he finished the year atop the Ivies in passing efficiency. He turned in one of the top statistical days in Crimson history, throwing for 365 yards and two touchdowns against Princeton, but he, like his teammates, saved his greatest day for last. On Saturday, he was 27-of-41 for 316 yards and four touchdowns...