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...Hotel he is said to have used on the day Litvinenko was poisoned. Finding polonium in a hotel Lugovoy had used on a previous trip to London prompted British authorities to wonder if there might have been an earlier, failed murder attempt. A senior British security official thought the sprawl of radioactive markers throughout London and beyond implied an amateur operation, not up to the FSB's usual standard. But another official disagreed. "This is such an extraordinary material to be using as a weapon," he said, "I'm not sure if any standard operating procedures would exist for handling...
...farmland and open space. So far, aggrieved property owners have filed 2,724 claims seeking $6.1 billion in compensation. Under the law, local authorities can "pay or waive," and so far, strapped for funds, they are mostly choosing to waive zoning rules. As a result, some Oregonians fear that sprawl will soon strangle Portland's famous greenbelt...
...high politics and economics, which is why you'll find pieces in this issue on food, art - and the family. Senior editor Catherine Mayer examined the way in which the traditional family - once at the very heart of many European nations - is being replaced by something different: "A comforting sprawl of co-opted friends and family members acquired by divorce and remarriage." Increasing longevity, says Mayer, "means families extend vertically through generations as well as horizontally." A project of this scope requires considerable team planning and effort, and I'm enormously grateful to all the writers, reporters, editors, photographers, picture...
...Iconic buildings such as Sert’s Peabody Terrace and Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center rose up in parallel with Harvard’s postwar intellectual boom. Harvard became an architectural rebel, dipping in to new experimental styles and unfamiliar designs in their sprawl across Cambridge...
...judicial action. Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, head of a GOP centrist group in the House, argues that suburban voters are crucial to the long-term growth of the party, and has put forward a centrist, "suburban agenda" aimed at drawing them in. But elements of the agenda - like anti-sprawl legislation, which would give tax breaks for the preservation of open space in suburbs and exurbs, and tax breaks for savings for higher education - have yet to even reach the floor...