Give credit, then, to the city's leaders for making long-term preparations for a warmer, stormier climate.
Doctors and social workers and AIDS patients say there are many people like Mr. Lee, facing the near certainty of an agonizing death, surrounded by friends and lovers dying in the same ugly way, who have made long-term preparations for suicide.
They are part of the Urban Expansion Initiative, an ambitious programme launched by New York University (NYU) to help cities make long-term preparations for their growth.In this section Roads of redemption Flight of the dispossessed ReprintsBetween now and 2050 the number of people living in cities will grow from 3.9 billion to 6.3 billion.
Ennis-Hill will be lining up in one of her favourite events as she launches her long-term preparations for the Rio Olympics in 2016.
After several more months of academic rigors, Miss Thomas will defend her championships early next year, then begin long-term preparation for her final amateur goal - an Olympic gold medal.
"When the Gaffer brought me in and asked me to run the reserves the idea was that it was all about long-term preparation and performance rather than pure results," he said.
Imagine with horror, for instance, the effect that this storm would have had without the ability to foresee its power, its path, and its likely effects, and to communicate the information quickly and effectively — even in the absence of the sort of adequate long-term preparation that science recommended and that politics spurned (as reported by Mireya Navarro in the Times just last month).
"It's almost like a World Cup camp in terms of long-term preparation".
Although Radzai has a short-term plan for a tsunami, he has no long-term preparation plans to weather the aftermath of one.
"It's a good opportunity for the players but it's also important for us in our short-term as well as long-term preparation," Gatland added.
