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...Aqua Mirage laser show, designed by MITFellow Paul Earls, drew criticism from anotherobserver who said, "If this is what a laser showis, what's the hope for Star Wars...
...neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...
Another of the six sites that EPA claims to have successfully cleaned is in Baltimore, where strong acids and aqua regia, one of the most corrosive liquids in existence, had been stored throughout the 1970s. For years, residents in 20 row houses along Annapolis Road complained of eye, nose and throat irritation; eight people were burned in July 1979 when chemicals leaked into a playing area. EPA removed 1,500 drums and scraped off up to twelve inches of topsoil. The land was sloped and sodded and declared fit for a playground. But critics cite tests showing that the contamination...
...hurling head coaches into the swimming pool is only one of many aqua traditions...
Besides whiffing an odd mixture of chlorine and Ben Gay, the first things a swim spectator notices upon entering an aqua stadium are the huge team banners designating the territory of each pack of swimmers...