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From Long Island to New Jersey to upstate New York, the past year has seen a miniboom in sophisticated new retreats opening in the resort communities surrounding New York City. While these escapes are packed during the summer high season, the arrival of autumn means lower prices, temperatures and crowd levels. Need to get out of Manhattan? Here are three of the hinterland's best beds...
...Russia have yet to come to terms on an agreement for Gazprom to sell natural gas from fields in western and eastern Siberia to the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC). In 2006 the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to develop two pipelines, one that would link Sakhalin Island with northeast China and a second that would join the Siberian Kovykta gas field with China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Completion of that deal stalled on disagreements over several issues, including price. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...magnitude earthquake struck Padang, a city of 900,000 on the northwest island of Sumatra, cutting power and telephone lines and trapping thousands of people underneath collapsed buildings. The initial death toll of 75 is expected to rise as victims are pulled from the rubble. Aftershocks triggered landslides and were felt as far away as Malaysia and Singapore. Hours earlier, a quake in the Pacific had sent a tsunami crashing into Samoa and American Samoa, killing at least...
Cristo Rey is an island of success in the Catholic ocean. But as in the charter-school community, there is an awareness that there needs to be a system-wide overhaul, lest another thousand-plus schools close over the next decade. "Just because you're devoted to serving others isn't a reason why you can't be operationally excellent," says Eriksen. "That's not really a culture that has permeated the Catholic Church for the last few decades...
Many Italian Americans in particular think so. Columbus Day has its roots in cultural pride, a celebration of the Italian explorer's "discovery" of the Americas when he landed on a Caribbean island in what's now the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492. The 300-year anniversary of Columbus' landing prompted the first recorded celebration of the achievement, in New York City in 1792. On the 400th anniversary, President Benjamin Harrison issued the first official proclamation urging Americans to celebrate the day. It led the Knights of Columbus, an organization with a largely Italian, Roman Catholic membership, to lobby heavily...