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...panel's predictions will fuel the work of New York's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force - a group of city, state and federal agencies that control vulnerable infrastructure. Though the adaptation plans are in their early stages, the mayor's office is already beginning to prepare the most vulnerable neighborhoods. That puts New York well ahead of any other major metropolis - and certainly the Federal Government - in taking a dead reckoning of the risks of global warming. "They've been quite brave in putting this out there," says Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. "This...
...last, even during a recession, because it encompasses far more than just feel-good greenery. Agarwalla, who has studied why Philadelphia declined compared with New York in the 20th century, believes sustainability will be the key to urban success in the 21st century. "We didn't develop this plan out of a desire to be green," he says. "This is crucial for its economic and environmental future...
...know how it's behaving now: badly. Or, as a diplomat in Seoul puts it, throwing an "intercontinental ballistic hissy fit." On April 5, the North made good on its plan to launch a Taepodong II rocket, an armament with a range of about 2,500 miles to 2,800 miles (4,000 km to 4,500 km), which would bring Hawaii within its reach. On March 31, Pyongyang announced that it will charge two young American journalists with "hostile acts," claiming that they strayed into North Korean territory from northeastern China. And despite a worsening economy, the regime said...
...formal plan included shuttles between Lev and the Hub, an ultra-elegant food spread, and, of course, a jaw-dropping view of the Boston skyline. The catch? The Hub formal ticket price was set to cost $30, twice as much as an in-house formal. Not to mention, there would be no open bar…yikes...
...spies for the CIA and MI-6, respectively—fed up with their empty lives of artifice and loneliness. After a one-night stand in Dubai and a week of lovemaking in Rome two years later, they decide that they belong together and hatch an escape plan. All they need in the world is each other and a cool $40 million to finance their tastes in Italian hotels, beachfront villas, and flowing Moet. But this romantically simple end begets a series of complicated means as the two spies become increasingly entangled in the world of corporate espionage and counter...