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...while Mother Nature and toxic algae levels offer potential last-minute complications for tomorrow’s race, it was the poor sanitation conditions that made swimming impossible for decades, prompting the 2003 launch of clean-up effort...
...float back and forth, because it’s not really a river, it’s a dam. You’d see the same trash going back and fourth across the river week after week. A group of us decided one day that we’d clean...
...lost more than 1.1 million once coveted I.T. jobs in the past five years. On the other hand, since 2001, about 1.7 million new health-care industry jobs have been created. Perhaps the new jobs will be in nanotechnology, or in green engineering because of China's need to clean up its water and air. Many in the U.S. believe that growing income inequality will create a raft of service jobs to cater to the growing ranks of the rich-high-end hairdressers, personal trainers and closet designers, for instance-none of which are likely to be moved offshore...
...provision Kravis and others are lobbying to save is spectacularly unfair. These billionaires enjoy a lower tax rate than the people who clean their toilets. Oh, sure, arguments can be made for this. These arguments usually turn on the metaphysical distinction between ordinary income and capital gains. And there are counterarguments challenging this artificial distinction, in general or in this particular case...
...toll on the cemetery. Vandals long ago dismantled the outsize bust of Morrison that once topped the grave. By then, the grave site had been covered in graffiti by fans. Other tombstones, vandalized with arrows labeled Jim that directed the way to Morrison's grave, have since been wiped clean. Cemetery staff blocked off the plot with metal barricades a few years ago. Asked for directions, a staff member sniffs: "We are a cemetery, not a tourist service...