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They were a coterie representing 50 million disabled Americans who were invited by the U.S. Park Service to preview the sprawling monument for Franklin Roosevelt to be dedicated May 2. The monument spreads out grandly on 7.5 acres along Washington's Tidal Basin, great blocks of ocher South Dakota granite carved with the soaring phrases of F.D.R.'s that brought this nation through economic collapse...
SAUGUS, Mass.--With its fastfood chains, car dealerships and walk-in pet clinics, this pit stop on the road to Maine is a world away from the sunny 20th floor office out of which State Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 ponders the Charles River basin, the MIT dome and the spires of Harvard's river houses...
When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced last week, "it would form a lake 16 ft. deep and four football fields around...
...think that nature is a vast storehouse that can be drawn on and then used as a disposal basin," said Tom Hayden, who represents the state's 23rd district. "We have a responsibility to restore and nourish the earth...
After local press reported Saturday that a broken pipe in Newton had been spilling raw sewage into the river for several weeks, many boathouses shut down until they had ascertained the safety of the lower basin...