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The Best Cities to Visit: Travel & Leisure versus Me

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Criteria: Sites, culture/arts, restaurants/food, people, shopping, value

Best Cities in the World

 Travel and  Leisure                 

  1. Bangkok
  2. Florence
  3. Istanbul
  4. Cape Town
  5. Sidney
  6. Rome
  7. New York
  8. Hong Kong
  9. Kyoto
  10. Paris

My Picks  

  1. Rome
  2. New York
  3. Paris
  4. Barcelona
  5. Madrid
  6. Hong Kong
  7. Istanbul
  8. Buenos Aires
  9. Chicago
  10. Cape Town

Best Cities in Europe

Travel and Leisure                      

  1. Florence
  2. Istanbul
  3. Rome
  4. Paris
  5. Barcelona
  6. Venice
  7. Madrid
  8. Vienna
  9. Seville
  10. Siena

My Picks

  1. Rome
  2. Paris
  3. Barcelona
  4. Madrid
  5. Istanbul
  6. Aix en Provence
  7. Florence
  8. Prague
  9. Milan
  10. Siena

Best Cities in North America

Travel and Leisure              

  1. New York
  2. Chicago
  3. San Francisco
  4. Charleston
  5. New Orleans
  6. Santa Fe
  7. Vancouver
  8. Savannah
  9. Quebec City
  10. Honolulu

My Picks

  1. New York
  2. Chicago
  3. San Francisco
  4. Washington, D.C.
  5. New Orleans
  6. Santa Fe
  7. Savannah
  8. Vancouver
  9. Honolulu
  10. Charleston
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When Will We Solve the Global Warming Problem?

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Technology changes not when it might but when it must.

Sensitive people note problems and talk about them. Writers and other influential people talk it up. Crusades are launched. And these crusades create counter-crusades. The argument soars in the media. And for a while it seems as if nothing will ever be done. But gradually, as the threat becomes more tangible, the counter-arguments subside. Laws are written. Treaties are signed. But still no great progress is made. Finally, the general population begins to make changes. But these changes don’t happen until the threat becomes tangible to the affected population.

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