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...Army engineers eventually made the dream come true by imprisoning Lake O behind a giant dike, subduing the Everglades with 2,000 miles of levees and canals, seizing control of nearly every raindrop that fell in southern Florida. Their all-out war on natural water flow made the bottom half of the state safe for an unrestrained building frenzy that began after World War II and basically continued until Juan Puig bought his billiard table. Florida now has 18 million residents, most of them south of Orlando. Such progress had a price. Half the Everglades is gone. The rest...
...crack widened and the dike collapsed, the flood would directly threaten the safety" of the city of Wuzhou on Guangxi's border with Guangdong, Zhang Jinshen, a regional flood control official, was quoted as saying by Xinhua...
...while Matory succeeded in cracking the front page, his colleagues cruelly rebuffed his sentiments. The Faculty thus poked a fatal hole in the dike that holds back the deluge of repression that threatens to turn “fair” Harvard into Arab-hating, Dictator-inviting Columbia in a heartbeat...
Number of Chinese coal miners trapped underground in the coastal province of Shandong since Aug. 17, when a burst river dike flooded two shafts...
...operate. Thompson says that the Sunni insurgency in Madain - as elsewhere in Iraq - is divided between nationalist elements and the jihadists of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The al-Qaeda group has based itself in a bend in the Tigris River dominated by fish farms, and the dike roads that criss-cross the area cannot carry the weight of U.S. vehicles...