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...wearer from sinking in moving snow by increasing the body's surface area. In 70 documented cases of air-bag users being caught in avalanches in Europe, only three died. But the backpacks are rarely used in the U.S. They cost about $600, twice the price of an avalanche beacon, and they can't be carried as baggage on airlines, which won't accept the pressurized-gas canisters used to inflate the bags. Still, experts hope that will change. Says Dale Atkins, a forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, who has participated in 500 mountain searches...
...Sheik Mo. From the nickname, you would hardly know that he is the Crown Prince and de facto ruler of Dubai and the man who has directed the tiny emirate's transformation from an ancient Persian Gulf port into a glitzy international hub of spas and skyscrapers--and a beacon of modernity for the Arab world. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum is building the Singapore of the Middle East, a free port where business and ideas can mix. On behalf of Dubai's ruling al Maktoum clan, Sheik Mohammed, 56, has spurred growth by channeling government funds, providing infrastructure...
...think of the United Nations as some type of moral beacon...but the moral compass of the UN is broken,” said Dore Gold, who represented Israel on the UN between...
...York City public school system gets worse by the year. Of the 396 schools in New York State that were labeled as failing, 328 were in New York City. The result is that desirable high schools, such as Beacon High School in Manhattan and Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, were forced to accept a hundred more students each this year than originally desired—leading to increased overcrowding in even the “smaller” public schools...
...News’s America, of course, Cambridge, Mass., is definitively blue. In the last election, Cambridge gave George W. Bush less than 13 percent of the vote. The city has long been seen as a beacon of leftist thought—but just how leftist is it? A couple of The Crimson’s most ideologically impervious reporters embarked on a tour of some of the local establishments that earned the city the moniker “the People’s Republic of Cambridge...