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Canals can mitigate seasonal floods, but beyond mass relocation, nothing will proof coastal cities against rising oceans. Even a slight rise in sea level will engulf large parts of Dhaka, warns UN-HABITAT, while Bangkok and Jakarta are both so vulnerable that it is "beyond the current capacity" of residents...
Workplace comedies like the office, it's sometimes said, are really family comedies--only about families of people with almost nothing in common, thrown together by circumstance. Thing is, that often describes actual families as well. So it's only fitting that the funniest new family comedy of the year...
Then again, it was decisions made by government officials in the years before the crisis that allowed things to get so bad. From ill-considered deregulation of banking and derivatives to over-the-top encouragement of homeownership, Washington's fingerprints are all over the crisis. Almost nothing has been done...
The value of peers in learning is nothing new. Though the advent of printing permitted communication among networks of philosophes and thinkers during the Enlightenment, it was nonetheless through debate in academies and salons that intellectual discourse advanced. Similarly, though we can get much out of reading on our own...
But are such savings ever likely to be realized? The answer, according to a wide range of experts, is frustratingly vague: Maybe. Hopefully. Probably. "Three-quarters of all the experts believe it is possible," says Harvard's David Cutler, a health-reform expert who has advised Obama. "What guarantees do...