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...Life in Baghdad went on as usual - heavy traffic in sweltering heat, Kalashnikov-toting Iraqi police cruising the streets in flatbed trucks, the occasional crack of distant gunfire. In Kirkuk car bombs killed more than a dozen people. In the capital more bodies turned up in the streets...
...This week's show of force by itself will probably not change much. House-to-house raids and traffic checkpoints, after all, haven't quelled the insurgency in the past, they simply force the insurgents to lie low and resurface when the pressure inevitably eases...
...geographers William P. Anderson and Tiruvarur R. Lakshmanan, investigated how automotive transport will be affected by these climatic disruptions. “Whenever you have a major storm event, you have major delays in people’s travel,” Anderson said. The researchers estimate aggregate traffic delays, measured in hours, under two scenarios—one with no climate change, and a second with climate-change-induced flooding. They found that climate change would increase aggregate traffic delays by 80 percent over the next century. Researchers initially gauged climatic trends for the first 25 years of this...
...report on how two Asian metropolises are grappling with environmental problems, from increased pollution to worsening traffic, caused readers to reflect on ways to improve the cities...
...definitely someone who was not afraid to get into an argument.”‘THEY CAN’T ALL BE BAD’After graduation, she interned at The Washington Post for three months, where she had the opportunity to write stories about the air traffic control strike of 1981. She then took a reporting position at The Miami Herald, where the term “crazy 80s” took on a whole new meaning. “Every possible reporter was completely deployed on covering the riots,” she remembers...