As Kentucky Derby Nears, Last Year’s Deaths Cast Long Shadow

But Flagler’s railroad across the ocean never earned a dime of profit, and it is difficult to imagine how a businessman as bright as he was ever thought it would. Flagler managed to fabricate excuses for his endeavor, one of them being that some would come to call a World Wonder. And while tourists made use of the line, freight shippers—the bread a

At the industry’s height, and before most such work moved northward to Tampa, Key West rollers were producing more than 62 million cigars a year, according to Tobacco Leaf, an industry journal.

In the twentieth century, the biodiversity crisis, as it eventually came to be known, only sped up. Extinction rates are now hundreds—perhaps thousands—of times higher than the so-called background rates that applied over most of geological time. The losses extend across all continents, all oceans, and all taxa. Along with the species formally cate

The foundation of Stacey’s house cracked. Vibrations rutted the road with industrial-strength potholes that punctured nine tires on her gold Pontiac G6 and cracked a rim. In her deepening ire, she wasn’t alone; in Amity, and all over the drilling epicenter of Western Pennsylvania, the weight and number of trucks destroyed bridges and roads, imperil