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...with essential services, let alone shore up against the sea. In time, they hope, the residents of these islands (some of which have populations of not much more than 100 people) will be enticed to move to larger, more secure places like Hulhumalé, an artificial island being built from scratch just across the lagoon from the capital. Hulhumalé is rather barren looking, but it has one very attractive feature--it towers more than 6 ft. above sea level, twice the elevation of most of Mal?...
...executives, the rationale for corporate marriages is often simple. Says Edward Hennessy, chairman of Allied Corp.: "It is cheaper to buy than to start from scratch." Following that logic, Hennessy acquired Bendix for more than $1.3 billion in 1982 in what has turned out to be a profitable purchase. Now he is paying $5 billion for Signal, whose aerospace and engineering lines complement Allied's products...
...give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to AIDS patients and often to gay men in general. In New York City and Los Angeles County, fire departments are providing special mouthpieces and other equipment to permit rescue without oral contact. New York State's department of corrections is providing bite-proof, scratch-proof suits to officers guarding infected inmates...
...ideology the Downtown Plan is sensibly deferential to the existing warp and woof of the city. In ambition, however, it is reminiscent of the Olympian urban-renewal texts of a generation ago, when planners presumed to know how to recast cities from scratch. It puts the city on record against unnecessary shadow and wind and disapproves of mirrored windows (visually off-putting), big street-level airline ticket offices (too boring for pedestrians) and the profusion of newspaper-vending machines (inconvenient for pedestrians). No San Franciscan, the plan continues, should have to walk more than 900 feet to find a sunny...
...cruelest month according to one Harvard grad, but it doesn’t have to be for the City of Boston. HUBRIS solutions are your office’s best bet to patch up the Big Dig before it becomes the world’s longest waterslide. You scratch our back, and we’ll scratch yours—in the Harvard way, with the mouth-end of our cigarette holders...