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...March, Japan's capital will receive a new crown jewel: the 54-story Tokyo Midtown complex in Roppongi, which will feature another new art museum inside the city's tallest skyscraper, topped by a new Ritz-Carlton hotel. You can reserve the top suite for a mere $17,300 a night...
...ruins of Chachabamba appear almost immediately, but the first real reward comes at the four-hour mark: Winay Wayna, the site of an ancient Incan settlement. Pause a while here to take in the terraces cut precariously into the mountainside, but remember that this is a mere dress rehearsal for the splendor that awaits...
...that's in summer. The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth was clocked here, in 1934, at an almost unbelievable 231 m.p.h. (a hurricane qualifies as a Category 5, the most severe, at a mere 156 m.p.h.). When I spent a day at the South Pole a few years ago, you could bundle up and walk around outside with relative comfort. Not here...
...Australia produces 550 million tons of greenhouse gases a year. That's a mere 1.5% of world emissions. Australia on its own can have little impact on global warming. But policymakers believe that if the nation can develop a successful local carbon-trading regime, it will become easier to spread such institutions to the rest of the world. Largely because of reduced land clearing, Australia-which did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol-should meet an agreed target (limiting annual emissions from 2008-12 to 108% of 1990 levels). But the challenge beyond then could be formidable, and few people have...
...house of impiety and sin” did some spring cleaning when it shooed out President Samuel Locke, class of 1755. Inaugurated in 1770, Locke would last a mere three years in office before a sudden resignation and banishment to the western part of the state, according to Gomes. His crime? Fathering a child with his maid...