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...through the audience to the stage "adds something new." But what he brings to the world of classical music is both something new and something ancient: encoded in the 25-year-old's commanding frame is the gravitas of tradition. Considered by many to be the world's oldest wind instrument, the didgeridoo has been played at Aboriginal ceremonies for thousands of years. But what Barton calls "the most simple instrument in the world-just a branch of tree minus termites," is radically new to the classical stage. "It's one of those things where, if you put something...
People tend to think they will be lucky. Wind, rain and fire happen to other, less-fortunate individuals. In a new TIME poll of 1,000 American adults taken on the eve of the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, fewer than one in five (16%) said they are personally "very well" prepared for a natural disaster or public emergency. Of the rest, about half explained their lack of preparation by claiming they don't live in an area at risk for disasters. Even among Gulf Coast residents, a mind-boggling 43% said they don?t face much risk...
...that Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and the state legislature managed to pass mandatory building codes this year. Most states already have such codes. Florida has had a strict one in place since 2001, and structures built under it tend to be the ones left standing after a 120 m.p.h. wind rips through. We know that for every dollar spent on that kind of basic mitigation, society saves an average of $4, according to a 2005 report by the nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences. Then there's Mississippi, which, believe it or not, still has no statewide building code. Katrina...
...fact, 91% of Americans live in places at a moderate-to-high risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, high-wind damage or terrorism, according to an estimate calculated for TIME by the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina. But Americans have a tendency to be die-hard optimists, literally. It is part of what makes the country great--and vincible. "There are four stages of denial," says Eric Holdeman, director of emergency management for Seattle's King County, which faces a significant earthquake threat. "One is, it won't happen...
...apple." But, he reminds, "it's not double. They're just paying the difference." Vail won't disclose the added cost to their energy bill, but to put it in perspective, an average household would have to pay roughly $15 extra per month to replace their energy consumption with wind. For a company that operates resorts in Colorado, California, Nevada, and Wyoming in addition to 125 retail stores nationwide, the difference...