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...Whatever progress Beijing may make assumes, of course, that it can complete $20 billion in stadiums on what is now farmland, a $12 billion water-treatment system that is still a blueprint and an air-cleanup program to purify an atmosphere so filled with soot that the skies periodically rain mud. Beijing has no history of building such facilities effectively. Its most high-profile construction project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C...
...Rodriguez, one of the game's pre-eminent players and most popular stars, was voted onto to the team and is batting cleanup. His 35-52 Rangers are in last place in the AL West, 28 games behind the first-place Mariners...
...season progressed, the Crimson also received more and more production from its rookies. Switch-hitting Trey Hendricks was thrown into the fire immediately, but responded well, hitting .300 with 23 RBI out of the cleanup spot. After struggling at the plate in the early-going, freshman center fielder Bryan Hale clubbed five home runs in one week's time and by the end of the year, raised his average up to a respectable...
...there, Harvard must face the reality outside Clarkâs window: 48 acres of land, some tied up in sixty year leases, split by a railway branch with permanent rights-of-way, on soil that will require environmental cleanup after a century of industrial...
...prospects of a government program to control the flood of mercury in Talawaan are almost zero. World Bank estimates put the cleanup costs at around $1 billion, a laughable figure in near-bankrupt Indonesia. And that assumes environment officials could get into the site. Victor Malonda, who heads the district mining office, recounts how he took 120 policemen and soldiers to the site a year ago to try to halt the mining. "We were chased away," he says despairingly. "They had samurai swords. We had to run for our lives...