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...result of the potential water contamination??which would not have affected Cambridge’s water supply—the state issued a “boil-water” order for 30 Boston-area communities...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schools Respond to Water Crisis | 5/5/2010 | See Source »

Bostonians may “love that dirty water,” but the Charles River may be running a little clearer by 2013. The river will see a drastic decrease in contamination??specifically, “over a 99 percent reduction in combined sewage overflow,” the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), Frederick A. Laskey, said yesterday. Combined sewage overflow (CSO) refers to the contamination that enters the river through pipes containing both storm water and sewage spillover. The move, slated for completion by 2013, could “perhaps make...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sewage Overflow in Charles To Decrease | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

...route to our utopic cosmopolis, Appiah suggests, we will also save the arts—in the cosmopolitan model of constant intercourse and “contamination?? over authenticity, great works of art are restored to being objects of common worth, the inheritance...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Being 'Cosmo' Girls—And Boys | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Noise is just the beginning of the problems.  The surreal environment the turbines create includes shadows, flicker, flashing FAA lights, cell and TV interruption, stray voltage, water contamination??the list goes on. It truly does!  And the Harvard purchase and others like it will ensure that rural communities all around the country continue to experience the same fate...

Author: By Sue Sliwinski, | Title: Wind Energy's Dark Side Should Cause Pause | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...know it, but NASA is guarding you against this danger through the “Office of Planetary Protection,” which is charged with preventing the inadvertent spreading of life between worlds during space exploration. Our efforts to prevent “back contamination??—the accidental return to Earth of dangerous alien microbes from other worlds—are the subject of a new NASA report that details how we might test for living organisms in returned samples. NASA intends to return a sample from Mars within the next decade...

Author: By David H. Grinspoon, | Title: Space Invaders | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

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