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...Richard Rogers is so well known, with so many major projects under his belt, that a lot of people will be surprised to hear he didn't have the bronze medallion already. But if it's hard not to think of him as a safe choice it's also strange to think of him that way. Because when he arrived on the scene three decades ago, Rogers represented everything that was the opposite of safe. He was 44 - a relative youth in the architectural field - when he became abruptly famous for co-designing, with Renzo Piano, one of the most...
...given the enormous complexity and variety of malignancies and the ways they can evolve and migrate in the body, an all-embracing cure is a naive hope. Instead, cancer doctors now appreciate that wayward cells may not necessarily have to be destroyed, just corralled and contained in a safe and tolerable way, often with drugs that are taken for the rest of the patient's life. "There was a mind shift that happened in the 1980s," says Dr. John Glaspy, professor of medicine at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We realized that there is a power in the chronic...
...Federal Government did such a poor job of protecting Louisiana before and after the storm. Most of the problems he identified persist, he says. And that is not Louisiana's problem alone, Bea emphasizes. The Army Corps of Engineers recently announced that 122 major levee systems are less than safe; those levees will face greater stresses with global warming. Extra-strong hurricanes will threaten cities along the entire Gulf and Atlantic coasts. New York City is overdue for a major hurricane; global warming raises the odds...
...global warming a high priority. The alternative is the prospect of losing its coastal cities altogether. ("We Are Here to Stay" is the accompanying public slogan.) "We want foreign visitors and investment to keep coming to the Netherlands," Vellinga says, "so we must assure them this will remain a safe place...
...Yasser remained optimistic even as chaos began to pervade the nation, finding consolation in the fact that he was making a good living. He served as a bodyguard for our correspondents and photographers, keeping us safe from kidnappers, insurgents and other Iraqis who resented our presence. Frequently threatened with death - by Sunni terrorists and Shi'ite extremists alike - he never quailed. We promoted him to security chief, and he made a tidy income, nearly three times the salary of a university professor...