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...decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch...
...nights of violence last autumn in the banlieues of France, rioters trashed cars, schools, shops and much else. Sibaty Siby, 62, says it happened because hope had already been trashed there long ago. President of the Franco-African Association in Clichy-sous-Bois, the poor, high-rise community 20 km east of Paris where the rioting began, Siby figures one thing is as true in France today as it was when he was growing up in a village in Mali: "If you want to be trusted by people, you have to trust them yourself." France, he says, has failed...
...decide end-of-life ships have to be recycled, they have to face up to the fact that we have no capacity at home to do so." In parts of Asia, the economic issue trumps any environmental concerns. Greenpeace India's Kumar claims ship-breakers along Alang's 10-km stretch of muddy beach "violate all environmental and labor laws." Explosions are common as oil residues often remain in the vessels, and workers are ill-equipped, without proper tools or protective clothing. But with an insatiable demand for steel in Asia's booming economies, scrap prices have soared. Scrap...
...EARTH LAUNCH - Between Jan. 17 and Feb. 14 ? SATURN ? JUPITER Jupiter gravity assist - February to March 2007 ? URANUS ? NEPTUNE ? PLUTO PLUTO-CHARON ENCOUNTER July 2015. During flyby, the probe will pass within a mere 6,000 miles (10,000 km) of Pluto?40 times as close as the Earth is to our own moon ? KUIPER BELT Voyage into Kuiper Belt 2016-2020 What is the Kuiper Belt? Named for Gerard Kuiper, who predicted its existence in the 1950s, it is a vast, disk-shaped cloud of thousands of icy bodies that starts near Neptune...
...grandfather would roll over in his grave if I sold our land. He'd haunt me the rest of my life." CLIFTON HERBERT, resident of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, where a proposal was made last week to move an entire string of villages, including Cameron, 25 km to 30 km inland from the Gulf Coast to protect against future hurricanes...