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...other words, we're going to need Michael Beard, a rotund, balding, 50-ish English physicist coasting on a Nobel Prize he won two decades ago. As Solar begins, Beard is in the waning days of his fifth marriage, hanging on as the chief of a government center on renewable energy, where climate change takes up less space in his mind than adultery. "Beard was not wholly skeptical about climate change," McEwan writes. "But he himself had other things to think about." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
Perhaps the most stark ghost city is Kangbashi, in Inner Mongolia. Built in just five years, Kangbashi was designed to be the showcase urban center of Ordos City, a relatively wealthy coal-mining hub that's home to 1.5 million people. A public-works project worthy of Kubla Khan's "stately pleasure-dome," Kangbashi is filled with office towers, administrative centers, government buildings, museums, theaters and sports fields - not to mention acre on acre of subdivisions overflowing with middle-class duplexes and bungalows. The only problem: the district was originally designed to house, support and entertain 1 million people...
With men on second and third, Larrow grounded out to third, scoring a run. Junior Dillon O’Neill followed with a double to right-center, plating another...
Shaw got things started in the first with a three-run bomb to center that plated senior Stephanie Krysiak and junior Ellen Macadam, who reached base on back-to-back singles...
Ferri helped her own cause with her first career homer, a bomb that scored Heritage and sophomore Jane Alexander. After junior Emily Henderson and Schellberg stroked back-to-back singles, Krysiak brought Henderson home with a base hit to center...