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...panel's predictions will fuel the work of New York's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force - a group of city, state and federal agencies that control vulnerable infrastructure. Though the adaptation plans are in their early stages, the mayor's office is already beginning to prepare the most vulnerable neighborhoods. That puts New York well ahead of any other major metropolis - and certainly the Federal Government - in taking a dead reckoning of the risks of global warming. "They've been quite brave in putting this out there," says Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. "This...
Psychopaths are neurologically different from healthy people. They're arrogant and obsessed with power and control, and they're cognitively almost incapable of remorse or empathy. Harris had a website where he repeatedly, repetitively rehearsed his grievances: "All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you pricks as I can!" (Among his pet peeves: people who pronounce espresso "expresso.") The journal he kept was called "The Book...
...matter who’s in the other dugout, or how much history there is to settle, the Crimson is focusing on the one thing it can control: its own play...
...Nutter bore the majority of labor on the mound, throwing three solid innings amidst minor control problems...
That the “University of Our Lady” should be a site of contention over a woman’s right to legislate control over her own body seems almost too perfect a coincidence. For many of us, the words that the protesters use to describe the university’s decision in their online petition—“outrage,” “scandal,” and “travesty”—would better connote the curtailing of federal funding for safe abortion procedures, the outlawing...