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...rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below sea level. In a major flood, parts of the plant could be submerged, shutting down sewage treatment. "If you lose these pumps, you're done," says Sapienza, standing in the plant's churning basement. "This is a really vulnerable place...
...according to one source, by 1938 more than 300 swimmers were competing at the event, and a bacchanal was born. The tradition of college swimmers traipsing to Florida in droves continued well into the swinging 60s. TIME first highlighted spring break in an April 1959 article titled "Beer & the Beach" ("It's not that we drink so much," noted one attendee, "it's that we drink all the time."). Two years later came the release of the spring break-themed hit movie Where the Boys Are starring a young, preternaturally tan George Hamilton. The Fort Lauderdale-set film spread...
...Meanwhile, the spring break scene and its lusty young demographic was getting noticed. In 1986, MTV launched its first spring break special from Daytona Beach, Fla., a program which has continued from varying locales ever since. The images it broadcast only reinforced spring break's reputation for alcoholic and sexual excess. The American Medical Association began warning of the dangers of binge-drinking and risky sexual behavior; fingers have also been wagged at young women for prebreak "anorexic challenges" and documented promiscuity. Many universities have taken to distributing "safe break bags" to students - including sunscreen, condoms and a sexual-assault...
...according to student discount-travel agency STA Travel, the average spring breaker spends $1,100 for their seven-night trip (many of which they will be too drunk to remember). In Florida, while annual visitor numbers dropped for the first time in seven years, student bookings to Panama City Beach are up by more than 20%, according to studentcity.com. Meanwhile, the nature of spring break continues to evolve. Alternative trips include everything from tutoring migrant farm workers in Florida to registering voters in rural Mississippi. Break Away, an organization that trains and helps colleges across the United States promote alternative...
...progressive moment because markets have failed and we have got to show that they can be brought to work in the public interest," he told the summit in the Chilean beach resort of Vina del Mar. "It's a progressive moment because we have new administrations, particularly in America, that understand the opportunities as well as the challenges ahead. But it is also a progressive moment if we can find, not just a theory for explaining why markets have failed, but if we can find the policies that will ensure that this new global economy can be made to work...