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...last week. As the Gulf, the lake and the river periodically overflowed, the growing city retreated behind an ever expanding web of soil, concrete and metal levees. Today there are 350 miles of those barricades snaking through the city and 22 massive pumping stations that are supposed to kick into action whenever the water sloshes over the walls. Having constructed that elaborate system, New Orleans was not inclined to abandon it. "The city built the levees to protect itself," says Craig Colten, L.S.U. geographer and author of the book An Unnatural Metropolis. "Now there's a huge investment in drainage...
...good," he says. "A lot of torture is better." That could easily serve as the retreat's motto. The matutinal cycle of torment repeats in the afternoon, and every day, a treadmill of yoga and yomps. Jeans herself describes the retreat as "a health boot camp." "The most effective kick start comes from a combination of diet and exercise," she explains. She runs her camp for 12 weeks a year in the Spanish hilltop village of Gaucín in Andalucia. But it's a movable raw-food feast, with two additional weeks planned in Cornwall, England, this year...
...dance numbers that the show had moved from one scene to the next before I knew it.Harvard S.T.A.G.E. has produced a fun and swanky “Footloose” that will bowl over any theater buffs, music lovers, or anyone who just likes to “kick off their Sunday shoes” and have a good time. Taking its professionalism and pushing it over the top of the scales with the obvious enthusiasm and joy of its performers, “Footloose” has deservedly snagged the rank of musical of the year...
...nation's three biggest beverage manufacturers--Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury Schweppes--last week announced an agreement to begin rolling back America's growing obesity epidemic in the place they can do the most good: the schools. Beginning now and progressing through the 2009-10 school year, the manufacturers will kick high-calorie, sugary drinks out of school vending machines and replace them with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, low-fat milk and sugar-free sodas--all served in smaller portions. And that's only the first move in Clinton's campaign to fight fat. His foundation is planning to turn...
...institutions that prizes not being married. Those two factors might create a higher risk that pedophiles would consciously or unconsciously be attracted to the profession. I wouldn't say celibacy is the cause. But celibacy requires a high level of emotional and personal maturity. Can an Archbishop ever kick back and have fun? Being thrown in at the top of a big organization, there's a sense of loneliness. The loss of anonymity is extraordinary. But I like to eat; I like to cook. I'm news dependent. And I do get a lot of variety in my work. Yesterday...