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Where else but the Big Apple has that trail creature called homo sapiens better succeeded in taming the harsh elements of nature and constructing a metropolis in which the dangers of the natural environment have been exchanged for the dangers of the built environment? This conflict between man and nature...
Dunster Dining Hall: Metropolis: Friday and Saturday, 8, 10; Sunday, 8 only.
Ironically, coastal towns such as Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa, only 50 miles from the epicenter, suffered less damage than Mexico City, 200 miles away. That is because the shoreline is made of solid rock and thus shakes less violently. Mexico's capital, however, was built on an alluvial lake bed. As...
The city council of the Midwestern metropolis has issued a resolution "deploring" and "condemning" Harvard's decision to withhold the diplomas of four anti-apartheid protesters pending a decision on discipline. The resolution also praises two Harvard students--both from Cleveland--for their courage in protesting South Africa's apartheid...
last year, Travel Writer Jan Morris said her valedictory to cities. "I may go upstream," she wrote airily, "or strike into the mountains." Yet here she is on the shadowy streets of a once grand Mediterranean trading and resort metropolis, "a little compendium of the world's experience, historically, aesthetically...