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...that we could design out of disaster," said meteorology professor Walker Ashley of Nortthern Illinois University. Now scientists are finding they need t... massive loss of life is the growth of urban areas, suggested Marshall Shepherd, a professor of atmos...
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... the foreseeable future, the major problem areas for electricity are California, New York, and the ... from the mergers between Unicom (Illinois) and PEOC Energy (Pennsylvania), will account for ... market take its course is a recipe for disaster. The market simply is not efficient when values ot...
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The Second Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found that the median house price in Winnipeg was 2.4 times the median household income. By contrast, the median house price was 6.6 times the median household income in Vancouver and 4.4 times in Toronto. This was good news, and the Winnipeg Free Press gave the story front-page coverage.
Failure to recognize this fact has led to the adoption of disastrous urban planning policies in many of the high-income world's large urban areas. Vancouver is one of the world's most unaffordable urban areas, principally because its urban planning policies have created a shortage of land for development. Toronto has blindly followed the example of Vancouver and other housing affordability disaster stories, such as Portland, Orego...
...Louis, Missouri-Illinois . metropolitan area. He is a senior fellow at the ...
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... of the past decade all occurred in the area in more acute forms than in other parts of the for... Soviet period, allowing the economic disaster of the 1990s to speak for itself, and emphasizing ..., Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . ...
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Oswego is like right in the middle, so every time it goes by us, we get a little bit of snow -- actually, a lot of snow," said Oswego Mayor Randy Bateman. "At certain periods of the day, the wind just keeps it right over us. Dumping and dumping.
"You know, it was neat when it started because we hadn't gotten any snow in December or January," Bateman added. "It's getting old now.
"They'll get more tonight," weather service spokesman Jon Hitchcock said Friday.
...-- New York's governor declared a disaster in Oswego County, where five straight days of lake... Lake Ontario late Sunday and has pounded the area relentlessly since then. "Oswego is like right in ... of the country -- five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, two in Michigan...
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The dead included eight in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one in nearby Stafford County, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
We continue to find folks and this will go on for a good couple days -- the rescue itself," city administrator Steve Hewitt told a news conference. "I mean, the debris is just unbelievable.
"All my downtown is gone. My home is gone. My staff's homes are gone. And we've got to find a way to get this to work and come to work every day and get this thing back on its feet. It's going to be tough."
... severe weather was possible in the area later Saturday. The tornado that struck late Frida...Gov. Kathleen Sebelius declared a disaster emergency for Kiowa County, said her spokeswoman N... down Friday in rural southwestern Illinois, but officials said there were no reports of injur...
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...No other area of economic life remains so much under the thrall ...: Two-Way Inspections Would be a Disaster," The San Diego Union- Tribune, April 5, 1998, p. ...Although Hastert's State of Illinois has a large amount of trade with Canada, he has to...