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...global warming is unlikely to have much of an effect on malaria, as long as you focus on lowland areas (because those regions already have so many mosquitoes). That picture may change, however, as you move upward in elevation. Malaria has seen a dramatic upswing since the 1970s in highland cities like Nairobi (around 5,500 ft. above sea level). How much of that can be tied to temperature increases--as opposed to population movement, lapses in mosquito control or the spread of drug-resistant parasites--is a matter of debate. But because each year there are at least...
...Ford introduces the $5-a-day wage at a new factory in Highland Park, Mich...
...earnestly New Agey in explaining his architecture (elemental earth forces, invisible Native American residues, UFOS and so on), critics and tastemakers have not always granted him his considerable due. But he has consistently produced marvelous, singular work, and the house he just finished in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park is particularly fine. Set on a steep, forested site in a neighborhood of conventionally swanky Texas mansions, the new house is a not-quite-severe collage of limestone, concrete and black steel, simultaneously grave and jazzy. Nor is it simply a multimillion-dollar one-liner: the entrance to the place...
...That does not mean we should give terrorists additional excuses to do so. Rather than fostering democracy, our belligerent invasion of Iraq has destabilized the region and convinced many Muslims, whose hearts and minds could otherwise have been won, that the terrorists' depiction of us is true. Adam Marczyk Highland Mills, New York...
...That does not mean we should give terrorists additional excuses to do so. Rather than fostering democracy, our belligerent invasion of Iraq has destabilized the region and convinced many Muslims, whose hearts and minds could otherwise have been won, that the terrorists' depiction of us is true. Adam Marczyk Highland Mills, New York, U.S. The "democratic stirrings" in the Middle East that Krauthammer noted with such satisfaction would, if they resulted in free and fair elections, probably return an overwhelming victory for anti-U.S. Islamic parties. Krauthammer claimed, "We have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims...