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...outcome of global warming entails the cooling of atmospheric temperature in the northern hemisphere. This idea was taken to an epic extreme in the film “The Day After Tomorrow,” which saw a shivering Jake Gyllenhaal racing against time through the frozen streets of Manhattan. The theory has its roots in a process known as the thermohaline circulation, by which ocean currents move heat from the equator to the northern regions of the globe. If polar ice caps were to melt and add water to the Atlantic, then this circulation of heat might be halted...
Javad Zarif, Iran's polished U.N. ambassador, is noted for being unexpectedly jovial for a person with such a difficult job. But soon after I arrive for a visit to his Manhattan office a few days ago, he turns rather serious and nods at a pad of paper for me to take notes. He wants to go on the record, which is unusual...
...There had been high hopes for cool, at least initially. The play is set in Manhattan during the 80s. It takes place almost entirely in clubs and the offices of nifty little literary magazines. Most of its characters are coke addicts. It’s playing in the Adams Pool House Theatre, which used to be an actual swimming pool where Harvard’s artsy types would skinny dip and swap STDs...
Skaggs had walked quite far, he realized now, in this pleasantly addled state. And that was part of the problem with his current life, he reckoned--his familiarity with almost every board and stone and step of Manhattan, his habitat by now so well known that even in a light opium haze he was able to wander for a mile, chatting silently with himself...
Fitzgerald's rise began in 1988 when he joined the prestigious U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. In 1992 he prosecuted brothers John and Joseph Gambino, two of New York's biggest Mafia leaders. The case ended in a mistrial, which threw Fitzgerald into a funk, but his outlook brightened in 1994 when the Gambinos pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. That same year U.S. Attorney White picked Fitzgerald to prosecute Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik," for plotting with nine associates to blow up New York City landmarks. Rahman was sentenced to life in prison, and Fitzgerald developed a reputation...