Word: seaports
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...jumps on board the cash-for-clunkers bandwagon, the Obama Administration would do well to pay attention to what is happening in Hamburg's sprawling harbor. The seaport city is one of the busiest ports in the world: nearly every car - new or used - passes through its docks on the way out of Germany. And this week, the police charged with patrolling the harbor released evidence showing that Germany's hugely popular cash-for-clunkers program may have some unintended beneficiaries: organized-crime groups and individuals who export the old cars to the Third World instead of crushing them into...
This is Tel Aviv's centenary year, so the boisterous Israeli seaport is in even more of a party mood than usual. And there are few better ways to celebrate the city than by strolling around its Bauhaus-style landmarks, stopping off at a few sidewalk cafés and restaurants along the way. Tel Aviv's Bauhaus buildings open the door to the mind-set of the early Zionists who went on to create the Jewish nation in 1948. They are elegant 1930s socialism writ in concrete. Many Israelis quip that the dwellings have survived in better shape than...
...juice bar” in the garage, where customers can charge their hybrid and electric cars for free. The hotel will also offer a complimentary bicycle program, allowing its guests to explore Boston without guzzling gas. The Charles is not the only Boston hotel with an environmental conscience. The Seaport Hotel near Logan International Airport is offering complimentary parking for hybrid cars during the entire month of April. “We’re strongly motivated by environmental concerns,” said Matthew V. Moore, the hotel’s director of rooms and environmental programs...
...79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue) has installed the 150-by-80-foot Polar Rink, filled with synthetic ice; it's harder to skate on, but offers a softer landing when you fall. Through Feb. 28, 2009, adults pay $10 and kids $8, including skate rentals. Another newcomer is the Seaport Ice rink at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, where on weekends and evenings, you can skate to live music or performances by the Big Apple Circus...
...goes to plan, in a couple of years the trickle will turn into a flood. When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Braslia and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...