Word: asphaltic
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...Aging buildings are tainted by plutonium spills from leaking pipes, valves and containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt. Now that suburbs have crept within three miles of the plant's perimeter, the plutonium that has periodically leaked into the air and nearby streams poses new dangers...
...that time Quincy Square was a sea of asphalt where tour buses parked," she said. "It was not a visually pleasing area...
...next week, parts of the street will be raised to curbs level and asphalt will be laid for walkways, she said. A crew will return to the site in the early spring to install benches and plant trees, shrubs and flowers...
...your crotch. And even if you're lucky enough to come upon the sprinklers after they're already on, you may still have to run a gauntlet to get where you're going. You'd think that the Administration would realize that there is no point to watering the asphalt...
...This is as bad as any hurricane can get," S.C. Gwynne reports from Navarre Beach, a barrier island about 20 miles east of Pensacola in the area that bore the full force of Hurricane Opal. "There are chunks of asphalt everywhere, a car 200 yards offshore, huge tower cranes twisted like toys, upside-down semi rigs just lying in the sand. Whole buildings are either destroyed and atomized into chunks no bigger than a yard across. In one case, a house had been taken up and thrown 50 yards into the air." Some residents are now returning to the remains...