Plans by Japan to build dozens of coal-fired power stations will cause at least 10,000 premature deaths, according to a study, as the country struggles to fulfil its climate change obligations five years after the Fukushima disaster closed down almost all of its nuclear plants.
Using the API, FedEx currently updates its store hours for its more than 50,000 retail touch points, including its drop boxes and stores, every 15 minutes (each store currently has about 150 data points attached to it), so if a power outage or natural disaster closes a store, that will be reflected on the site within minutes.
The prolonged horror of the Fukushima nuclear disaster closed off vast areas and called reliance on nuclear power into question.
Roberts has a way of bringing marine disaster closer to home.
The grim shadow of the impending Holocaust abroad presages, it turns out, a smaller-scale disaster closer to home.
Twenty years ago, however, it was a disaster close to home that led him to take out his 8-by-10 large-format camera.
Now, a campaign flier states, Mr. Powell is back "to help the people of our community cope with a disaster closer to home" -- referring to Mr. Denis.
(Grode) ★ 'Disaster!' (closes on Sunday) This delightful jukebox musical, a mash-up of disaster-movie clichés from the 1970s and that decade's cheesiest pop hits (and there were so many), could have been D.J.'d by Irwin Allen.
New Ohio Theater, 154 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 868-4444, smartix.com (Webster) ★ 'Disaster!' (closes on Sunday) This delightful jukebox musical, a mash-up of disaster-movie clichés from the 1970s and that decade's cheesiest pop hits (and there were so many), could have been D.J.'d by Irwin Allen.
But for Bloomberg and the others whose jobs it is to deal with this sort of thing, a disaster closer to home was obviously in mind.
