Kim Gallagher has a plan for America’s “blue highways,” the thousands of miles of dusty, old single-lane heritage routes that wend desolately through the countryside: turn them green.
‘Green Highways’: Michigan’s Eco-Friendly Road Concept
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Mexico aims to make Baja safer for U.S. tourists
American tourists heading to Mexico’s Baja California state in the future can expect more police protection from a new task force, according to Mexican authorities. Officials from the Baja California cities of Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito gathered earlier this week to announce the creation of the task force, which will be made up of bilingual officers and which will be designed primarily to serve Americans
Does sex still sell? Adult industry not immune to recession
More than 100 purveyors of adult entertainment waited hours for Edison’s giant convention hall to fill last month, a slow attendance that reflected recessional challenges that nearly all industries have faced.
Hollywood embraces Roman Polanski
When filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday in Switzerland, he was on his way to accept an award for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski’s friend, Swiss filmmaker Otto Weisser, was among the first to publicly run to his defense
Pittsburgh in spotlight as G-20 summit approaches
Pittsburgh conjures up visions of steel mills and gritty sports teams for many. The host city of this week’s Group of 20 summit hopes to update that image.
Airline industry plans to halve carbon emissions
The global aviation industry has agreed to cut its net carbon emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050 under a plan to be set out on Tuesday by British Airways chief, Willie Walsh. Mr Walsh, who will outline the initiative at Tuesday’s United Nations forum on climate change in New York, said it was the “best option for the planet” and should be taken up at the December Copenhagen summit, where world leaders are due to come up with a new accord on limiting greenhouse gas emissions to replace the 1997 Kyoto agreement
Maryland senator has boisterous health care town hall
There were tears, fears and lots of shouting Wednesday when Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland held a town hall meeting on health care at Hagerstown Community College in his home state
Obama to add tariffs to some Chinese tire imports
President Obama will place tariffs on imports of some Chinese tires for three years in an effort to curb a surge in exports that has rocked the U.S.
‘The September Issue’: Humanizing the Devil
Going into The September Issue, a documentary chronicling the production of a single, record-breakingly huge issue of Vogue in 2007, we already knew that the magazine’s editor, Anna Wintour, wears Prada, drinks Starbucks and favors sunglasses indoors and that her weapon of choice is more frosty glare than flaming pitchfork.
What Insurers Are Trying to Get Out of Health Reform
Insurance companies have always been an effective villain in the health-care reform debate, but this year the industry thought things might be different. Recognizing the growing sentiment for some kind of change and fully aware that universal coverage would help bulk up their rolls as baby boomers age into the Medicare system, private insurers early on declared their support for President Obama’s health reform effort