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...symbolizes the boldness of the South's economic ascendance, and what's at stake with its decline, it is Atlanta. New condominium projects are scattered across this city's downtown. One of the most striking is the Atlantic Residences, up the street from a faux Arc de Triomphe, a man-made pond, an Ikea and a Target. A sign around the 46-story tower reads: "Luxury residences from the $400s to $800s" ... Spectacular penthouse from $1 million." Just a few months before the building's planned opening, however, the appetite for such excess is disappearing. (See 50 authentic American travel...
...truth, by any reasonable definition, the EPA has the right to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The scientific case is clear: global warming is dangerous, and man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming; ergo, those gases are pollutants that must be dealt with. But carbon is so global, so embedded in every aspect of modern life that it needs to be managed by the popularly elected governmental body meant to represent us all: Congress. "This is an enormous shift, and we need to get together as a nation to deal with it," says Maggie...
...question missing in the media frenzy was, however, what took so long for everyone to catch on? Even before his election as president, Sarkozy had secured a reputation as a man with a quick and nasty temper, sharp tongue, and obsession with coming out on top in verbal slap fights - particularly ones played out in public. Presidential aides regularly say that privately Sarkozy "has no time for diplomats, whom he considers...
During a November, 2007 visit to protesting fishermen in Britany, Sarkozy was reduced to furiously babbling as he sought to call a detractor out to insult him face to face. A year later, Sarkozy snarled "get out of here, you poor a - hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted...
...name and Chinese town in large characters on a rock on a famous stretch of Taiwan's coast. Eventually, the Chinese media shamed into making a public apology. "I'm not very cultured. I didn't know I was making a serious mistake," the Yangtse Evening Paper reported the man saying. "My daughter and wife have scolded me, and I'm very sorry for what...