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...years since, the former insurance broker and his wife, Federica, have turned 0.9 km of pristine beach on the remote island of Cubadak into Paradiso Village - the best diving resort in the area, and a bucolic getaway for anyone seeking to escape the harried pace of urban life. "On Cubadak, we are all about nature," says Casalegno. Paradiso's feeling of spectacular isolation is belied by its relative accessibility - a fact that has made it an open secret not only to [an error occurred while processing this directive] repeat visitors from Europe, but regional and domestic tourists, expats, dive fanatics...
...invigorate Massachusetts’ economy through state-funded initiatives—initiatives that would be jeopardized were the income tax to be reduced. By investing in our mass transit systems and expanding them to economically underserved areas, Patrick believes that the Commonwealth can rejuvenate Massachusetts’ recessed urban areas such as New Bedford and Worcester. After 16 years of neglect for the Commonwealth’s mass transit network, Patrick’s emphasis on this issue is refreshing and welcome...
...official inventor, swore that the world?s car-weary city slickers would snap them up to travel distances too short to drive and too long to walk. As cities around the world move to push bulky, polluting cars out of their congested downtowns, he predicted, Segways would become the urban transporters of choice. He wasn?t alone in his enthusiasm. Such renowned investors and entrepreneurs as John Doerr, the venture capitalist who helped midwife Amazon.com and Google, and Apple?s Steve Jobs, vied for a piece of the Segway pie and did their bit to hype the machine before...
...kids and as a result, friendly department chair Dr. Sandra Naddaff knows every one of them by name. As for the hipsters, the range of languages and interests that draw people to Literature results in a culturally and academically diverse group of minds that is more United Nations than Urban Outfitters. The faculty has some flavor and diversity as well, though perhaps not so much camaraderie. There’s Summers-hating and terrificly-titled Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. And then there’s Summers-lovin’, aptly-titled Peretz Professor...
...Monday. The life expectancy of Asian-Americans is 85.3 years, higher than any single country’s. “But tens of millions of other Americans have levels more typical of middle-income or low-income developing countries,” Murray continued. Blacks in high-crime urban areas have a life expectancy of 70.8 years, lower than Vietnam, Egypt, and North Korea. The life expectancy gap has been increasing since 1984. According to the study, disparities in life expectancy are caused not by commonly-blamed factors such as poverty, infant mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, and lack of health...