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...part, Detroit must address the fact that a 138-sq.-mi. city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn't efficiently service the yawning stretches of barely inhabited areas even if the city could afford to maintain those operations at their former size. Detroit has to shrink its footprint, even if it means condemning decent houses in the gap-toothed areas and moving their occupants to compact neighborhoods where they might find a modicum of security and service. Build greenbelts, which...
...should be paying for it. Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters on Sept. 21 that the wording for a new agreement now being negotiated is "an absolute mess" so full of contradictions U.N. staff said it couldn't even be translated. "Climate-change policy tends to be a roller-coaster ride, but it seems to be getting rougher and rougher," he said. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...curriculum. On the one hand, there are classes like "Bits" and "The Magic of Numbers" that seem geared to the fluffier humanities types, and on the other, there are the departmental courses, which, yes, provide solid, mathematical instruction but are basically just harder versions of the math you couldn't even handle in high school...
...long after all expectations had died that they would ever sign on to a deal: as much as they would be happy to kill health-care reform, Republicans want to make the case that they gave bipartisanship their all. In fact, both cited "partisan deadlines" as reasons that they couldn't vote for the bill...
...often settled by force. This is a lesson passed on to his disciple Abdullah and one, he says, that Karzai should learn, too. "Karzai blames the international community for Afghanistan's troubles," Abdullah says scornfully. "But when he first came to the palace, he needed foreign bodyguards because he couldn't find 30 Afghans that he trusted." Abdullah also says Karzai's popularity has sunk so low after the allegations of massive fraud that if international forces were to leave Afghanistan tomorrow, "Why, Karzai wouldn't last eight minutes in his palace...