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...caused from $140 billion to $157 billion in damages. (Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in U.S. history, caused $100 billion in losses.) "There has been no trend in the number or intensity of storms at landfall since 1900," says Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. "The storms themselves haven't changed...
Human beings have been clearing away our best protections all over the world, says Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "The natural protections are diminishing - whether you're talking about mangrove forests in areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami, wetlands in the Gulf Coast or forests, which offer protection against landslides and mudslides...
...dozen friends were unanimously deemed "undrinkable." But 11 of them were quite good, and while all the expected states made this list (California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Michigan and Texas), so did a pinot grigio from Delaware, a white from Kentucky, a muscat from New Hampshire, a cabernet from Colorado and a chardonnay from North Carolina. Of the remaining wines, 21 were pretty decent and 12 were bad. In general, the wines were better than I predicted, given the newness of many operations, but all the people who tasted with me thought the U.S. had let them down. "Overall, there...
...ammunition for the McCain campaign's effort to paint Obama as a celebrity, Plouffe says, "We think this is something that should be welcomed and celebrated, the fact that we're opening this up to average Americans. It's been a great organizational tool. We think about states. [Colorado] is a big battleground state, and if it slips into the Obama column from the McCain column, his path just got a lot, lot harder. One of our best organizations now in the entire country will be in Colorado as a result of this convention and the activities tomorrow night...
...Colorado is not the only state where Plouffe thinks Obama has the potential to dramatically increase voter turnout - with voters favorable to his candidate. He noted that in Florida, 600,000 registered African-Americans and 900,000 registered voters under the age of 40 did not show up at the polls in 2004. "It's on the margins, but all of these states are going to be won or lost on the margins. We think we're going to have an exceptional field goal unit, and so we think we can win a lot of close races." In other words...