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...century, the neighborhood hosted luminaries like Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois during its renaissance in the 1920s and '30s. Billie Holiday performed at the Apollo, and Fidel Castro stayed at the Hotel Theresa. In later decades, Harlem withered as soaring crime rates made it a symbol of urban blight. But since the 1990s, as Manhattan real estate prices have skyrocketed, the district's legacy and its perch atop Central Park have enticed real estate developers searching for the next up-and-coming neighborhood. The rezoning augurs wholesale changes, including luxury office towers and apartments. Much of Harlem is still...
...power a fringe alternative energy source when it already produces more electricity than wind and solar technologies combined [April 28]? Geothermal has none of the drawbacks associated with wind, solar, nuclear, or clean coal. It is abundant, affordable, dependable, produces no emissions, generates no waste, and is not a blight on the landscape. Joseph Fuller, Las Cruces, New Mexico...
...maladies of the Mezzogiorno are the maladies of Italy. It's just a question of degree: what is gray in Italy is black in the south." Indeed, entrenched nationwide ills like tax evasion, cumbersome bureaucracy and a self-serving political class are of a piece with the south's blight - crime and blatant corruption. Neither the public nor private sectors have been modernized in Italy, as they have been elsewhere in Europe, explains Fabrizio Barca, a senior Italian Economy Ministry official. "The north has found ways to compensate for this, and can be competitive in spite of the state...
From a fire-gutted shell across from a pretty park on the north side of town to a mangy wreck near the airport where a collection of cats and dogs were found chained together in the yard, abandoned residences are putting a blight on all types of neighborhoods. "We get about six to ten calls a day on vacant homes," says police officer John McGill, who stresses that this isn't just a problem in the poorer parts of town...
...still save seeds today, mostly in national seed banks that often specialize in native crops: pistachios in Iran, rice in the Philippines. When a disaster like the Irish potato blight of the 1840s hits, scientists can search the seed bank for an old variety that might prove resistant. Since pests and pathogens are constantly evolving, a well-stocked seed bank "is our best line of defense," says Geoff Hawtin, director-general of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia...