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warnings

Are there Cassandras among us today, warning of ticking disasters, whose predictions fall on deaf ears?

Why Visionaries Who Can Accurately Predict Looming Disasters Are Often Ignored

We are right to discount most soothsayers, but horrible things happen when accurate warnings of specific disasters go unheeded.
By Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy
Photo by Liz Clayton.

Watch Out for Falling Sofas

Crime stoppers.
By Liz Clayton

Councilman Proposes Cigarette-Style Warnings on Independent PAC Ads

City Councilman Brad Lander is looking to rein in exploding expenditures from super PAC-like groups with proposed new legislation that
By Jill Colvin

Bloomberg Vaguely Threatens Landlords Who Don't Get the Lights Back On

By Colin Campbell
Predicted track of the storm. (NHC)

Mandatory Hurricane Sandy Evacuations Include Zone A, Hoboken, Stamford

By Steve Huff
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‘A Flaming River’: The World Should Watch Greece’s Rising Neo-Nazis, Golden Dawn [Video]

By Steve Huff

Schumer Warns Against ‘Radical’ Egypt

By David Freedlander

Office of Emergency Management Declares Weather Emergency

By David Freedlander
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