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...Washington's program will be microscopic compared with Paris'. Officials are starting with 120 bikes and 10 stations to work out any kinks but hope it will grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that revenue into...
...less vulnerable to tornadoes than rural, flat areas. Consider the tornadoes that swept through downtown Atlanta and parts of New Orleans earlier this year, and the series of deadly tornadoes that battered Salt Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They're a very rare event," Jim Keeney, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Kansas City, Mo., office, said of urban tornadoes. But, he explains, tornadoes form at an atmospheric level far above skyscrapers like Chicago's iconic Sears Tower. So tall buildings don't prevent their formation in cities...
Meanwhile, on late Sunday, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency. National Guard troops were dispatched to severely flooded areas. More than 100 roads, many with significant structural damage, were closed. Doyle swiftly ordered the inspection of his state's roughly 3,500 dams. So far, 13 dams have been destroyed and water is seeping through several others. "It's a full-scale response," Doyle told TIME this week. "We're thankful that, despite all the physical damage, nobody lost their lives...
...there are sometimes hidden costs in the fine print, interest payments not due for months, especially when the outrage is calculated for maximum political effect. And that outrage came back to haunt Barack Obama Wednesday when Jim Johnson, the man running his vice presidential search team, stepped down after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had received preferential deals on mortgages because he was friendly with an executive at Countrywide Financial, which has been tied to the subprime foreclosure crisis. "Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about...
...visiting Iraq. When Patrick Murphy, who served with the 82nd Airborne in Baghdad, returned to the country as a Congressman in 2007, he said he found the trip "somewhat scripted" and insisted on breaking off and seeing his former comrades so they "would give the straight story." Senator Jim Webb, a former Marine and Secretary of the Navy, called congressional Iraq visits a "dog and pony" show...