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...lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed how stunned and baffled Mumbai's citizens were by the brazen attacks on their home. They stayed inside because they knew this was more than just another random bomb blast, the kind Indians usually shake off like so many mosquitoes...
...University of California at Irvine and chair of the committee overseeing MOSES, another change in the global climate is helping. The worldwide financial crisis has prompted governments to throw vast amounts of money into public works to stimulate their economies. And so MOSES is finally getting its share. Who knew the Adriatic wanted that kind of bailout...
...strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells us, her husband leaned against a car, weeping uncontrollably, as her ashes were scattered. He knew--such is his tragedy and his power--all that he had done, and all that he had lost...
...felt that I wasn’t playing my best,” Ahmed added. “I knew that we had to win, and I knew that I had to step up my level to help my team...
...While she had published “The Alex Studies,” an academic exploration of the cognitive capacities of grey parrots in 2002, “Alex & Me” sought to approach Alex’s life from a different angle. “People who knew me and knew the work only knew the science part and didn’t know what I call the back story, the story of the rollercoaster ride that I had on the way to doing all this research,” Pepperberg says. “After he died...