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...improved to specific minimum standards. In Los Angeles' case, mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another alternative. It turned to the Rand Corp. for an analysis of the problem. Lo and behold, the respected think tank recently produced what seemed at first glance to be model advice...
...through 1,835 ft. of sediment before beginning to bite into the solid rock that they were looking for. Analysis of the core samples brought to the surface identified it as granite about 600 million years old. The find proved that the rock was continental shelf and not ocean basin crust, which is primarily basalt (solidified lava), which in the South Atlantic is no more than about 130 million years...
Bach in the Basin is the Metropolitan District Commission's Summer Bach festival at the Hatch Memorial Shell in the Charles River Esplanade. There's a concert Sunday at 8:30 p.m., and although it's officially a Bach festival the music will be Haydn and Mozart, played by the 35-member Esplanade Mozart Orchestra...
...several civic projects, including development of a man-made lake in the nearby Meramec River basin that will serve as a community recreation center. During the four years that Barksdale has headed the bank, its deposits have topped $1 billion for the first time and its international business has tripled...
...everything changed once the construction began. First, because Back Bay is all reclaimed land from the Charles River Basin, the excavation disturbed the adjacent area. Disrupted sidewalks and streets shifted and buckled, causing damages to sewage and water mains and communication lines. The city of Boston and three utility companies are currently suing Hancock for the damages incurred from this excavation...