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Years passed, during which Fisk's endowment dwindled while the art market went into warp drive. In 2005 the school's president, Hazel O'Leary, came up with an idea that could not only pay to renovate the frayed campus gallery where the Stieglitz Collection has languished but also pump millions of dollars into Fisk's general budget. Why not sell off just a bit of that famous art? But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block...
Americans are paying 12% more at the gas pump then they did just one month ago. At $2.80 a gallon, gas prices are up over 30 cents in just 30 days. Such a rapid rise in prices is sure to cause alarm, yet according to search term data, we aren't fazed. Last week's Web searches for General Motors' Hummer outnumbered Toyota's signature hybrid, the Prius, by more than...
...surprise, then, that when pump prices reached $3.00 per gallon in September 2005 searches for "gas prices" surged to nearly 10 times their normal level. What is surprising is that "gas price" searches do not mirror the rise and fall of of what we pay at the pump. But once a price threshold is crossed, we become immediately -- although temporarily -- concerned...
...Searches for types of vehicles can also be telling, namely information on gas-guzzling SUVs and energy-efficient hybrids. Searches for hybrid vehicles spike in unison with pump prices, but our interest quickly retreats at the first sign of a drop. Searches for SUVs are counterintuitive. When gas prices go up, searches on these vehicles do not go down...
...long way to go before it is climateproof, but so does most of the world. Japan has an impressive, long-standing system of flood control, including the so-called G-Cans project, a massive underground system in Tokyo that can pump 200 tons of water per second out of rivers and into the harbor before the city's streets flood. But former city officials acknowledge that Tokyo's system has reached its capacity. Since global warming is expected to bring Japan more frequent torrential rains, Tokyo will have to upgrade its drainage and sewage systems...