Q&A: Transportation Secretary on Biking, Walking and ‘What Americans Want’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

But, what Americans want is to get out of their cars, and get out of congestion, and have opportunities for more transit, more light rail, more buses, and some communities are going to street cars.
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We’re always going to take care of our highways. As I said, we have a state-of-the-art interstate system that’s been developed over three or four decades. We’re not going to give up on our roads. We know people are always going to drive cars. They’re going to use their cars for long distances.

A Day in the Ancient Roman Port of Ostia

This city was a seaport on the Mediterranean shore two thousand years ago, during the height of the Roman Empire, but the alluvial deposits of the Tiber River have moved the coastline steadily west over the last two thousand years so that the ancient seaport is now two miles inland.

[Journalist Kolbert rages against weathermen; they're allegedly unqualified to comment on climate science] : The New Yorker

Bastardi’s position is ridiculous (which is no doubt why he’s often asked to air it on Fox News). Yet there it was on the front page of the Times last week. Among weathermen, it turns out, views like Bastardi’s are typical.
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No one has ever offered a plausible account of why thousands of scientists at hundreds of universities in dozens of countries would bother to engineer a climate hoax.

Elizabeth Kolbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After graduating high school, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University.