Arif Munandar had been pronounced dead before he woke up in a body bag four days after a monstrous wave swept his village in Indonesia's northern Aceh province 15 years ago.
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US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall. Trump's signature campaign...
Trump's signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without fencing.
HOUSTON (AP) — Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall. Trump's signature campaign...
Trump's signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without fencing.
AP Exclusive: Early PG&E blackouts forewarned later problems
The nation's largest utility says it didn't foresee problems from massive blackouts meant to prevent California wildfires after earlier ones went well. But an @AP review has uncovered failures by Pacific Gas & Electric and a repeated pattern of mistakes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset — like millions of other Californians, some spent days in the dark when the nation’s largest...
The nation's largest utility says it didn't foresee problems from massive blackouts meant to prevent California wildfires after earlier ones went well. But an @AP review has uncovered failures by Pacific Gas & Electric and a repeated pattern of mistakes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset — like millions of other Californians, some spent days in the dark when the nation’s largest...
The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever
An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks, created the modern pregame show, invented a new way to see football, and launched a television empire
The Limits Of The City - Murray Bookchin
Topics Urbanism, Utopia, Social Ecology
Topics Urbanism, Utopia, Social Ecology
Collection opensource
Language English
Essay on the evolution of urbanism that attempts to rescue a progressive tradition of city life from the current pathway of sprawling megacities.
Essay on the evolution of urbanism that attempts to rescue a progressive tradition of city life from the current pathway of sprawling megacities.
Cities that are budding outward lack significant vertical growth, but because they are in their infancy, in terms of urban development, could benefit most from policies designed to encourage more sustainable growth.
Thousands of people have gathered after Friday prayers outside the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, one India's largest mosques, to protest a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.
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Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing bombardment in Syria's Idlib region, the UN said, as fighting flares in the jihadist bastion fuelling an already dire humanitarian situation.
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British film actor Idris Elba received Sierra Leone citizenship and a diplomatic passport on his first visit to his father's native country.
Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio conferred the passport during an emotional private ceremony at his colonial-era residence in the capital Freetown.
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A ride in a horse-drawn carriage is a classic excursion for tourists and locals in Istanbul, but its days may be numbered as authorities announce a three-month ban over mounting alarm about the welfare of the horses.
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