"A massive Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives.Before the eye even crossed land, the first bands were...
More interesting news coming out of the urban food movement."From atop the Rocket building, there’s no doubt you’re smack in the middle of a city. Swing around in a circle and you’ll see the sun going down on...
Miss 604 is not happy about what is happening to our parks."The latest news this morning has finally tipped me over the edge: “Queen Elizabeth Park is right up there on the list of important, local tourist...
I noticed the headline in the NYTimes, but I forgot to read it until slashdot reminded me. The NYTIMES story includes the txts that were put online. But the criminal in this case got his photo taken and uploaded to the Net, got the location of the purloined card, geotagged,...
I feel left out: evidently I'm the only one who doesn't get to play Bob Dylan. Which sucks, since for a while there I had the outlaw 'tache and everything. Anyway, the Toronto Film Festival is in full swing."The idea...
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The global measuring contest continues: Builders of the Emirates' newest skyscraper are laying claim to the title of World's Tallest, before construction is even complete. The estimated height of the completed Burj...
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EIGHT years ago one of the few open parcels of land in downtown Seattle
was a desolate brownfield bordering the Puget Sound waterfront and
ringed by the cityâs skyline. The eight-and-a-half acre property, a
former fuel storage and transfer site for Union Oil of...
"EIGHT years ago one of the few open parcels of land in downtown Seattle was a desolate brownfield bordering the Puget Sound waterfront and ringed by the city’s skyline. The eight-and-a-half acre property, a former fuel storage and transfer site for Union Oil of California,...
"New Yorkers stretched along the waterfront from the Verrazano Bridge to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum yesterday to welcome more than 6,000 sailors and their ships for Fleet Week 2006. "
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