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Other, more dramatic changes were to come to the Charles River in the nineteenth century. A great slice of the basin at the river mouth was to be filled in. The process was set in motion when the city of Boston decided it needed to expand. First it filled in the large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back...
...which Nile? According to Egypt's leading geologist, Rushdi Said, 55, the present-day Nile is a relative newcomer to Egypt, having been around for only 30,000 years. Before that, he says, at least four different Niles had flowed through-and then disappeared from-the river basin...
Britain had a frightening vision of the future back in 1952, when a combination of pollution and weather produced a killer fog that caused 4,000 deaths, in many cases by aggravating existing respiratory ailments. Communities in the eastern part of the Los Angeles basin have had fre quent "smog alerts" during summer months; when an alert is issued, residents with heart or lung problems are warned to avoid unnecessary activity and mothers are told to keep small children indoors. Chicago officials issued warnings 15 times last summer when levels of ozone (a highly active form of oxygen produced, among...
...City, Kans., for another fund raiser; on Saturday he flew to Dallas, and amid inevitable reminders of John Kennedy, Ford addressed some 2,000 members of the National Federation of Republican Women and spoke at Southern Methodist University. Then he journeyed to Midland, Texas, where he dedicated the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and was thanked with a shower of rose petals-a fitting gesture in a week when Congress sustained his veto of an oil decontrol bill...
...girl who took a midnight plunge and came up a celebrity learn to live with her reputation?" The question jumps from the book cover of Fanne Foxe, The Stripper and the Congressman. Since her Tidal Basin swim and her romance with Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills went public last October, Fanne Foxe has made one R rated movie (Posse from Heaven), and has plans for a second, as well as a Las Vegas nightclub opening in December. Her new book, in which she tells of her alleged pregnancy by Mills and an abortion, is headed for a press...