Word: brownfields
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...Bohème is a four-act opera in which six poverty-stricken artists struggle to find success amidst their bohemian lifestyles. Rodolfo, a poet (Robert Grady) falls in love with a silk flower-maker, Mimi (Susan Brownfield) who is fatally ill. As the opera progresses, Rodolfo and Mimi realize that their relationship cannot last—Rodolfo can not stand by and watch helplessly as Mimi’s consumption steals her away from him. In the end, although Rodolfo and his friends give their most prized possessions, this is not enough to save Mimi’s life...
...little for the environment - toxic brownfield cleanup, and the land and water conservation fund, and $4.9 billion over five years for the national parks, but nothing about the Alaskan oilfields (that got rolled into the energy program...
Perhaps one should have expected such a project eventually to take shape. After all, the pornography industry is a constant force in the culture of New Haven, being the third-largest employer behind bail bondsmen and brownfield cleanup. And having little enough to offer in the life of the mind, Yalies have naturally turned to the life of the flesh instead--or, in the case of former Saybrook Master Antonio C. Lasaga, turned to thousands of pictures of naked little boys. Students here may have difficulty understanding such a mentality; at Harvard, the play-acting of a film such...
...Texas Gov. George W. Bush is hesitant to put lives at risk in military interventions in far-off lands; Yale students are hesitant to put their lives at risk in brief excursions through the streets of New Haven. Both candidates have emphasized the need for better cleanup of toxic brownfields; New Haven happens to be a toxic brownfield...