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Poorer countries have fewer options. Wracked by periodic floods, Bangladesh cannot simply evacuate the "chars" -- bars of sand and silt in the Ganges Delta -- where millions of people have set up camp. But the government has drawn up plans for a network of raised helipads and local flood shelters to...
Because the White House Christmas tree was in the Blue Room, the President was put in the Red Room to await his cue to stride to the podium. That meant 30 more feet to walk, five seconds longer on the approach, more time for the cameras to pick up the...
Earlier this year, in response to a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of private citizens, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was...
A few decades ago, the author began working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that...
As the press flocked to the site, the oil companies, biologists and Eskimos discovered they had unleashed a juggernaut they could not control. The Eskimos quickly abandoned their seasonal hunt for endangered bowhead whales in the belief that it would not look good on network news. The oil companies found...