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...decades after banning nuclear power, following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Italy announced it will begin building new nuclear facilities, spurred by surging oil prices and concerns over the effect of fossil fuels on the environment...
Hoping to fill a need unmet by the National Institutes of Health's grant system, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will give $600 million to 56 U.S.-based scientists studying long-term topics like global warming's effect on the spread of disease and the genetic basis of smell. Researchers will be free to adapt their projects and follow up new leads without scrounging for funding, an approach the institute hopes will lead to major medical breakthroughs decades from...
...Disneyfication of Times Square, pushing out the old and ushering in the new has been transforming our neighborhoods. The perpetrators? Real estate developers, the politicians and residents who desire progress in our city and those who can afford to pay the high rents and prices. Sadly, the effect of this progress has been to steal the heart and soul from the world's greatest city--but that heart will beat on. Peter Edelson, NEW YORK CITY...
...then food and gasoline prices jumped, consumer confidence slumped further, and housing prices fell even more. Democrats showed signs that they would end their campaign without going into double overtime, and Bush reappeared onstage, stealing the spotlight by suggesting obliquely that as President, Obama might appease terrorists. The overall effect served as a stark reminder that in order to win, McCain must distance himself from Bush's legacy without abandoning the coalition that won the past two presidential elections. "One of the challenges is for me to reach across the political spectrum," he admits, "but also make sure...
...Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited upon people," wrote Chanda, "missionary activity had the effect of shrinking the world. The spread of proselytizing faiths brought dispersed communities into contact." Coffee, for example, traveled with Islam (which forbade the consumption of wine), spreading from Yemen throughout the Arab world, then into Turkey and Europe. The constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished...