Each year, during the annual New York City marathon, approximately 30,000 athletes cross the Pulaski Bridge. The Pulaski Bridge not only marks the halfway point of the marathon, it is also the most polluted and noxious waterway in the United States. The marathon walkers and runners will most likely notice the smell radiating up from [...]
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In 1880 the Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza founded a new city in an African village called Nkuna. Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, was born. One hundred twenty-three years later, a 2003 survey found Brazzaville the worst city in the world in which to live. When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...] “In total, 20 petrol tanks were involved, each said to hold three million gallons of fuel.” “The Buncefield depot is a major distribution terminal operated by Total and part-owned by Texaco, storing oil, petrol as well as kerosene which supplies airports across the region, including Heathrow and Luton. The country’s fifth largest fuel distribution depot, [...] You could say that Los Angeles has a love/hate relationship with the bicycle, but (in the manner of all things LA) it’s a rather eccentric one. Angeleno bicyclists love so much about LA—the weather, the mountains and beaches, the leafy side streets, the breathtaking light — but LA as a whole does not love bicyclists. [...] |
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