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...Naturally, when the prefecture set about building the new, $7.3 billion, 26-gate Central Japan International Airport on a man-made island in Ise Bay, it did so with careful cost controls. (In the rest of Japan, many public-works projects are case studies in waste.) The airport, headed by former Toyota executive Yukihisa Hirano and half funded by the private sector, was almost $1 billion under budget when it opened last month. Combined with the World Expo, it may help local leaders to build an international profile to match its rising domestic status. But will that "Nagoya Gal" look...
Michael Chertoff's office is full of boxes. He's been the nation's Homeland Security chief for 30 days and still he hasn't paused to unpack. There are boxes in the corner, under his desk, stacked in front of the bay window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy...
...fertility could sound a death knell. Drilling proponents like to point to the small physical footprint of the proposed development, 20,000 acres, even while they ignore maps that project crisscrossing drilling sites, airstrips, docks, and roads. Proponents like to herald the allegedly enviro-friendly operations at Prudhoe Bay. They do not publicize the multi-million dollar fines paid by British Petroleum after its contractors illegally dumped hazardous chemicals, including benzene, at the site...
...most laughable weapon in the drilling companies’ rhetorical arsenal is talk of “roadless” drilling. “Roadless” has turned into “roads” before, in Prudhoe Bay. According to an Interior Department official quoted in The New York Times yesterday, “The term ‘roadless’ does not mean the absence of roads. Rather, it indicates an attempt to minimize the construction of permanent roads.” Wonderful news. By the same logic, one might suppose the term...
...says the Rollergirls are creating "a coalition of the willing" that will hash out official flat-track rules in Chicago this summer. And the league's inaugural meeting comes none too soon. "The injury rate in flat track is extremely high," warns Tim Patten, owner of the old-school Bay City Bombers. "Their play gets dirty real quick." --By Adam Pitluk and Julie Rawe