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...city started by focusing on what it could control directly. Bloomberg launched a $2.3 billion plan last July to reduce carbon emissions from city-owned properties 30% by 2017 by retrofitting buildings with more-efficient lights and better insulation. The payoff is that the city expects to begin saving money through reduced energy bills as early as 2015. On the streets, 15% of the city's 13,000 taxis are hybrids, with more on the way. "The city has made progress on improving what it can control," says Jonathan Rose, a New York architect and sustainable-design expert. "The place...
...occasional sing-along session. Like Deacon’s previous work, “Bromst” is still primarily instrumentally driven, but his sound has evolved into something catchier, lighter, and ultimately more inviting. “Build Voice,” the album’s opener, begins with a grating, repetitive drone which eventually becomes the backbone of the entire track. After your ears adjust to the initial irritation, however, it somehow morphs into an undeniably musical sound. The same drone is no longer unsettling noise but an oscillation between two notes with a clear, pounding rhythm...
...language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained obscure, even after Franco’s death in 1975, when the ban on Catalan was lifted. With her translation of “Death in Spring,” Martha Tennent hopes to begin to redress this historic injustice. How deeply unfortunate, then, that the novel itself cannot live up to the promise of a hidden classic. A brief work of only 150 pages, told in dense four-page episodes, “Death in Spring” creates a world at once strange...
...freshman further into the limelight and on to the front lines of a depleted team roster.Always the opportunist, Jones quickly relished his elevated role. “It doesn’t really matter to me where I play,” Jones says. “At the beginning of the season, Coach decided to play me at opposite [hitter]. That was fun. But ever since I got moved to outside hitter, I’ve had to have more responsibility. For the first game or two on the outside, I didn’t play that effectively...
...except for grammar and identifying details. According to Rankin, for some, “the act of writing their story is healing and cathartic in itself, and they hadn’t expected it.” While survivors are at different stages in the healing process when they begin to tell their stories, Rankin says that some contributors found motivation to seek professional counseling after writing their accounts for the magazine. In its own way, “Saturday Night” suggests the immense power of narrative; through both the creation and spread of the magazine...