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Aerial views of urban areas magnify the damage seen on the ground. Whole sections of Pisco and Chincha have been leveled. The few buildings that remain standing are oddly off center, resembling a lopsided wood-block tower about to crumble. Schools and hospitals are gone and the Tambo de Mora prison, from which 600 inmates escaped after the earthquake, looks like a pile of rocks around which someone has incongruously built guard towers. Of the 91 government-run daycare centers in Pisco, only one remains...
...Airplane manufacturers and airlines are working on ways to cut carbon emissions by raising fuel efficiency - building lighter and more aerodynamic planes, towing jets on the ground, and improving engine capacity. Designers are looking at running planes on biofuel, and Virgin Atlantic head Richard Branson has promised to build a biofueled jet by next year. But industry experts believe such incremental changes could improve efficiency by 1% or 2% a year at most, while passenger miles are set to grow at 5% to 6% annually. "We're left with a sustainability gap," says Roger Gardner, chief executive of OMEGA...
Everything about this small Scottish town stresses humility and unpretentiousness: its rugged, unadorned links courses, crumbling medieval architecture, quaint B&Bs and creaky-floored hotels. The hallowed Old Course lies on public ground--golf is forbidden on Sundays so families can picnic on the fairways. But now St. Andrews is undergoing a change that would once have been unthinkable. High-end golf, American-style--loud pants and loudmouths--has come to the uniquely understated home of golf...
...tunnel, now filled with rubble - and do it with extraordinary care. That's because this particular mine is an old one. "You have increased risk," says Davitt McAteer, vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia and a former MSHA assistant secretary, "because you've already disturbed the ground quite substantially...
...Richardson recognizes how important that segment of voters could be, but he's also careful not to stress it too much. He does have six bilingual staffers on the ground, has already reached out to Latino groups, and he's the only candidate to grant El Latino, Des Moines' 5,000-circulation Hispanic weekly, an interview, done in Spanish. And, "when the time's right, we'll start advertisements" targeting Latin voters, he told TIME Wednesday morning over a breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage. At the same time, he says that Hispanic outreach in Iowa is "important...