| Normally Obscure Panel Pushed Into the Limelight
Attorney Michele Rosenfeld had just finished arguing the value of a back yard that lies in the path of the future intercounty connector when the 83-year-old man asked her to speak up. "Your voice is beautiful, but it's too low," Robert Hanson told her during the recent hearing at the Rockville courthouse. "We all have hearing aids, and they're turned up to the max, but I've heard about half of what you've said." .
Urban Ecology: Taking Measure Of The Coming Megacity's Impact
Ecologist Nancy Grimm of Arizona State University and her colleagues are addressing these questions. "When we think of global change, images of melting ice caps and pasture replacing tropic rainforest come to mind," Grimm says. "What drives these changes" In fact, much of the current environmental impact originates in cities, and with demographic transition to city life the urban footprint is likely to continue to grow." Urban challenges face communities worldwide, with solutions lagging behind. Grimm and her colleagues promote a global perspective of urban development. Their analyses capture some of the commonalities that will face future city planners and societies, viewing cities as both drivers of and responders to environmental change. The authors chart the socio-ecological challenges and changes ahead for all cities, but particularly those in rapidly developing regions, like China and India.
Sharon Bush defends alleged JFK love child
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush's former sister-in-law has defended a man in Canada publicized as the love child of President John Kennedy, Vancouver media reported.
Sharon Bush, the former wife of the president's brother, Neil, told British Columbia's Vancouver Sun media scrutiny and criticism of Jack Worthington was unfounded, as she dated him after her divorce and knew him well.
"He is a fine man, highly ethical, a man of high integrity," Bush said.
Bush said she was speaking out after a British tabloid discredited a media investigation launched more than a year ago by Vanity Fair magazine into the background of Worthington, who bears a strong resemblance to the Kennedy family.
Earlier this week, Worthington showed the Globe and Mail his U.S.
Parish hopes to reopen improved office annex
ST. FRANCISVILLE — West Feliciana Parish Police Jury officials said Thursday they hope improvements made in recent weeks would allow them to reopen the parish’s courthouse annex Monday. Jury President Bert Babers and Parish Manager Ambrose Sims said the jury will monitor the air quality in the building through the weekend and again Monday morning. "All things being equal, we hope we can reopen Monday," Babers said after meeting with a consulting engineer the jury hired last month when workers in the building began complaining of illnesses. Investigations into possible causes for the illnesses showed a buildup of carbon dioxide in the building, as well as dirty ductwork in part of the building’s heating and air conditioning systems. A year ago, dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide made workers ill and forced the jury to close the building until the jury sealed an exterior opening in its boiler room wall near the boilers’ exhausts.
Pick of the paperbacks
In exploring why it happened, Martin Goodman accepts that there were many differences between Romans and Jews - Jews were more insular than Romans, for instance, knowing little of the world beyond their environs - and yet, as he points out, differences alone do not make conflict inevitable. Goodman suggests that the battle was the result of a mismanaged foreign policy which, once pursued by the emperor's son, Titus, had to be carried out to avoid the appearance of a U-turn. Whether the author is right or not - and he makes his case plausibly - the events of 2,000 years ago have consequences today, particularly for Jews, whose later way of living was greatly influenced by the destruction of their temple. This impressively detailed book is essential for anyone wanting to understand two great civilizations.
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