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But converting forests to agriculture led to cities and civilization.
That agenda is “Islam,” which many imagine to include all the terrible things that we can read about in the press every day: the stoning of adulterous women under Sharia law in northern Nigeria, the amputation of thieves’ hands in Saudi Arabia, honor killings of women who refuse arranged marriages in Pakistan (or even northern English cities like Bradford and Manchester), the willingness to justify suicide bombings.
The Oslo Accords ushered in an era of bus explosions in Israel’s main cities.
The few American cities that introduced this system in the Progressive era, between 1910 and 1930, soon abandoned it - or were forced to - in order to stop the election of black representatives.
Should one apologize for the Crusades, for the destruction of German cities by the armies of King Louis the XIV in the seventeenth century, not to mention the armies of Napoleon?
Moreover, the benefits of improved air quality in these areas are less relevant than in Paris or other big cities.
For the first time, a majority of us now live in cities, and that majority will grow rapidly.
In cities, cars offer easy mobility – but only when traffic isn’t too bad.
If we continue to fill our cities – not just London and Los Angeles, but also Mumbai and Shanghai – with cars, we will be left with little mobility and barely functional cities.
It led the way in rebuilding its cities around cars and highways.
Of the 25 most murderous cities in the world, a staggering 23 are in Latin America.
Where Europe WorksSTOCKHOLM – With Swedish cities roiled for weeks now by rioting by unemployed immigrants, many observers see a failure of the country’s economic model.
Diseases are spreading, wells are drying up, storms are smashing cities and destroying crops, and rain is either a distant memory or an acute danger.
By 2030, more than 50% of Africa’s 1.4 billion inhabitants are expected to live in cities.Urbanization brings with it opportunity, as consumer demand will most likely shift towards higher-value processed foods, including fruit, vegetables, vegetable oils, fish, and dairy products.
Income inequality is a top concern not only in tent cities across the United States, but also among street protesters in Taipei, Tel Aviv, Cairo, Athens, Madrid, Santiago, and elsewhere.
The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms.
Last week, Mexico experienced simultaneous hurricanes in the Pacific and in the Gulf of Mexico that devastated towns and cities in their path.
They seek to demonstrate the benefits that a more sustainable pattern of development can bring to the world’s cities, to people’s health (from the reduction in air pollution), to energy security, and to the ability of the world’s poor to access energy.
They want to promote investment and economic growth, create jobs, stabilize public finances, expand markets, turn profits, ensure reliable energy and food supplies, produce goods and services, reduce poverty, and build cities.
Similarly, an international survey found that HIV infection among intravenous drug users decreased by 5.8% per year in cities with syringe exchange programs, and increased by 5.9% per year in cities without such programs.
But while the old multicultural trading cities of Aleppo and Mosul might never truly recover and blossom again, that should not be used as an excuse to carve up the region along new lines, at the cost of rivers of blood.
Already, many states and cities are adopting reforms to encourage political compromise and improve democratic governance.
RCV has already been adopted by a number of American cities and the state of Maine, and one hopes it will continue to spread in the years ahead.
They are bankers, lawyers, businessmen, and railroad builders, often representing the interests of powerful figures in the big cities on the East Coast.
In the bloody mountains and ruined cities of Chechnya, Putin established his credentials as the hard man Russia needs to restore order and stop the country's internal disintegration by revitalizing state power.
To do this, leaders must resolve the issue of immigration, overcome parliamentary deadlock, and restore law and order in cities.
There was a serious danger that the contents of the nuclear reactor would seep into the soil, and then leak into the Dnepr river, thus endangering the population of Kiev and other cities along the riverbanks.
In the last century, the world got richer; its population quadrupled; the number of people living in cities grew thirteen-fold; and we consumed more of everything.
The first is a new missile named Sajil, which has a range of 15 kilometers and can reach more Israeli towns and cities.
In addition, after the reoccupation of the West Bank’s cities in April 2002, Israel arrested about 7000 Palestinians who are allegedly associated with Hamas, Fatah, and other Palestinian groups.
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