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...Cambridge has potholes the size of the Grand Canyon," says Kobach. And according to Bruce Weber, salesperson at the Bicycle Exchange, the city roads throughout Boston are getting worse and worse...
...noblesse oblige. Where he grew up, the name Babbitt seldom reminded anyone of the bourgeois conformist of the Sinclair Lewis novel; rather, in Flagstaff, Ariz., it meant roughly what Rockefeller does in New York. Arriving a century ago in Flagstaff, a logging and ranching town south of the Grand Canyon, five Babbitt brothers turned a modest grubstake into a mercantile empire. As Bruce came of age, his family owned the grocery, drugstore and icehouse; a lumberyard and sawmill; and owned or controlled nearly a million acres of ranchland. They were landlords to half the town and employers to half...
Hikers who venture into the Grand Canyon complain that the park's majestic tranquillity is too often disturbed by the buzz of airplanes overhead. Last week the National Park Service announced restrictions on aircraft that it hopes will satisfy both environmentalists and backpackers as well as so-called flightseers. The plan, ordered by Congress, designates four flight-free zones, totaling 530,000 acres over which aircraft cannot fly at less than 7,000 ft. above the canyon rim. Between the restricted zones are several corridors where aircraft can ferry tourists. The plan also bans flights below the canyon...
When Don Simpson checked into Tucson's Canyon Ranch Spa last year, he figured he needed to knock off a dozen pounds. The co-producer of Flashdance, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop knew he "had a tendency to gain weight" after each movie. Still, the string of megahits had only managed to push the scale up to 199 lbs., not too far out of line, he thought, with the standardized chart readings for a 5-ft. 9-in. 40-year-old male. But Simpson got a rude shock when the spa analysis revealed what proportion of his weight...
...Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, a man was killed when he was buried under seven feet of earth 35 feet into a tunnel under construction, Pasadena Fire Battalion Chief Duncan Baird said...