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...curious confidence in our own safety keeps us from planning for the predictable catastrophes we know are coming. Even though about half of those polled said they have personally experienced a natural disaster or other public emergency, only a third had a plan for how their family would communicate in a catastrophe. Likewise, only a third had bothered to buy additional insurance to protect themselves or their homes from disaster or made physical changes to their homes...
...child was write. During my military service, I created a lot of couples - I was a good love-letter writer." Now, instead of matchmaking, he maintains "Italians," the daily newspaper Corriere della Serra's popular online column, his attempt to cultivate what in La Bella Figura he calls "the curious glue that, despite everything, binds the nation." This persistent, if modest, voice may be what bridges the gap between Italy's national languor and a future embrace of the rest of the world. Severgnini has a very specific bridge in mind. "Not the Ponte dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs...
...PROSPECT OF A HILLARY-FOR-PRESIDENT campaign has put much of the Democratic establishment in a bind. The early line is that Hillary would be unstoppable in a Democratic primary but unelectable in a general election. That bet would help explain the curious political subspecies I came across frequently in reporting this story: moneymen who are lining her campaign account even as they say privately they hope...
...visited southeastern Louisiana five times over the past year to document the tribulations and occasional triumphs of a region struggling to rebuild. Meanwhile, new threats are always gathering off our shores, along our fault lines and across our plains. As Amanda Ripley writes in her investigation of America's curious and dangerous reluctance to prepare for the next disaster (see page 54), the question a year after Katrina is not who will save us the next time but how will we save ourselves...
...have had any effect on the rate of conversion. Instead, since 9/11, some mosques have seen a jump in the number of people converting to Islam. "Awareness of Islam is much greater now, whether positive or negative, than it was prior to September 11," says Khan. "People are becoming curious. Sometimes it starts when they just walk into a bookshop and start reading a Koran after hearing George Bush talking about...