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...done a risk assessment like any prudent general. "It isn't like any other endeavor," he says. "It's enormously complicated. You're dealing with a lot of factors you don't understand." At one point when he was trying to decide whether to run, his wife Gert suggested that he put all his thoughts on paper. Clark tried but then discarded his notes. "I realized I couldn't quite get it down," he says. Is he too late? Too untested? Too new to the game? "You just basically have to announce," Clark says, "and take your chances." --With reporting...
...from executives on the ground: "Tourists shifted their travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words, travel is returning to where it began?an hourglass market, a place with...
After years of working for Democratic causes in his hometown of Sea Gert, N.J. and then at Harvard, Salzmann says he has now come to appreciate conservatism...
First there was Arlene. Then Bret bowled into Texas. After that there were a few sputterers ? Cindy, Dennis and Emily. And then there is the furious Floyd (trailed closely by Gert, with Harvey hovering in the distance). What's going on here? Another trio of hurricanes lining up to take a punch at the United States? Sure, it's hurricane season, but why are there so many storms and why is this one so powerful? Is it just coincidence, or has humanity's abuse of the earth ? in the form of global warming ? come back to haunt...
...time ever than two major hurricanes have hit the U.S. in one year. And it's far from over: With more than two months remaining in the hurricane season (June 1 through November 30), the U.S. could be facing one of the worst series of storms in history. Hurricane Gert is gaining momentum and pushing west from the Atlantic, followed closely by another tropical storm, which will be called Harvey if it grows in intensity. "We've already seen the normal number of major hurricanes this year," says Lushine. "The average is two per year hitting...