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...getting slapped around by thugs and placed under police protection, Adelstein never loses his gift for crisp storytelling and an unexpectedly earnest eagerness to try to rescue the damned. "You're stupid, obtuse, stubborn and reckless," a hood he calls Cyclops tells him at a clandestine meeting in a transit lounge at Hong Kong's airport, "but at the end of the day, I guess that's what makes a good journo...
...tears, with the words, "25 years ago, our loved ones were burned alive in front of our eyes," and in the next line, "Why has India, the world's largest democracy, denied us justice?" - are scheduled for the month of November in the San Francisco Bay Area's transit system. (See pictures of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi on the campaign trail...
...tangle of institutions, values, incentives, and social arrangements that give rise to these physical phenomena. For example, Americans drive so much not because driving is an inevitable aspect of human life, but because our particular market system prices oil a certain way, because our government favors highways over mass transit, because we inhabit a culture that views casual car use as morally acceptable, and so forth...
...green building codes - will need to be carried out at the state and city level, the governors in L.A. noted. The summit "is part of that global groundswell that perceives the threats from climate change, but also the inordinate opportunities if the world acts now and in concert to transit to a low carbon, green economy," said Achim Steiner, executive director for the U.N. Environment Program...
...could see a repeat of what happened in center cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from the metropolitan core. Finding new, creative uses for McMansions is a start, but the ultimate goal may be to design neighborhoods in which such large houses wouldn't make sense in the first place...