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The Miami coastline: there are fears that even a 30cm rise in the sea level could be catastrophic. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty A drive through the sticky Florida heat into Alton Road in Miami Beach can be an unexpectedly awkward business. Most of the boulevard, which runs north through the heart of the resort’s most opulent…
TIME Newsfeed society What I Learned as a Woman at a Men’s-Rights Conference Don Bayley—Getty Images I went to the conference in suburban Detroit expecting a group of feminist-hating Internet trolls; I found much more Detroit once epitomized the possibilities of the American Dream: as the hub of the U.S. auto industry, money, power and…
Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. Emma Sulkowicz has had enough. As the movement against sexual assault on campus continues to grow, Sulkowicz, CC ’15, has decided to take matters into her own hands by filing a police report against the Columbia student who allegedly raped her a year and a half…
There’s still debate about whether men who commit sexual assault on college campuses are predators, or men who got drunk and made a mistake. Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Getty Images Findings of the Center for Public Integrity and NPR News Investigation: — Colleges almost never expel men who are found responsible for sexual…
Photo Emma Sulkowicz joined a federal complaint against Columbia University after officials dismissed her report about a rape. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times Emma Sulkowicz said she knew it would be awful to go before a disciplinary panel and describe being raped by a fellow student, but nothing prepared her for what…
Photo Students filed with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against Columbia University. Credit Robert Caplin for The New York Times Pressure on Columbia University to overhaul its approach to sexual assault and harassment reached a new pitch on Thursday, when a group of students filed complaints with the federal government, charging systematic mishandling…
Credit: Image by Thinkstock The desire to build a community and reader engagement around articles is a growing focus for publishers and organisations on the web. Community, social media or user-generated content teams have become a mainstay of digital news organisations, and further possibilities for engagement are explored regularly. Now business site CFO has thrown…
Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance program for low-income people, covers health and long-term care services for over 66 million Americans. Medicaid beneficiaries include many children, working families, low-income elderly, and individuals with disabilities. To participate in Medicaid, states are required to meet federal core requirements; however, states have significant flexibility to expand beyond program…
David Walentas paid $12 million for an entire Brooklyn neighborhood in 1979. He transformed it into one of New York’s glitziest locales. Photo: David Yellen For Forbes. Cash crises, political grudge matches, suicide. None of it stopped David Walentas from forging a ten-digit fortune by creating an entire neighborhood in New York’s underdog borough. And…
Ask someone who doesn’t work in advertising what it means to “make an impression,” you will likely get a reasonable response like “to do something that someone remembers.” However, inside the advertising industry, the definition of “impression” is not nearly as simple. Why? Because if you run an advertisement on TV, radio, or print, you…