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...western Louisiana coastline, similarly deprived of Mississippi river sediment, has been losing, in some places, as much as 35 ft. of beach a year, according to biologist David Richard, a specialist in the area's wetlands. By the time Rita hit, he says, the Gulf of Mexico was more than a quarter of a mile closer to the inland cities than it was when Hurricane Audrey struck...
...known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. You'll have to come back in April for that...
...taking on Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, with his company's vast array of media properties, including CNN, HBO, America Online, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, and a current market value of $85 billion, Icahn has chosen his biggest mark yet. Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises...
Harvard Instructor in Medicine Dr. Richard E. Scranton’s new study of elderly patients boasts a far larger sample size than previous studies on the topic, surveying 91,052 subjects...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded the grant to Richard Platt, who chairs the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl, who is director of biopreparedness at Children’s Hospital, an HMS teaching hospital...