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...council meeting, Annis said Harvard’s construction workcaused his foundation to sink—resulting in the cracks in his walls—and damaged the exterior of his house when it was struck by a flood of slurry, a material used to hold back dirt during excavations.Other Riverside residents at the meeting complained that they felt excluded from the decision-making process surrounding the Cowperthwaite project.Construction began on the six-story Cowperthwaite apartments in 2005, as part of the University’s initiative to provide housing for 50 percent of its graduate students by 2011.Councilor Craig...
...sulfurous odor of rotting eggs. On a narrow causeway leading to the caldera, dozens of trucks idle in a queue, waiting to deliver soil for the massive earthworks meant to contain the mud. Already, they have transported more than 88 million cu. ft. (2.5 million cu m) of dirt to build eight miles (13 km) of levees around the site. Dozens of cranes work late into the evening piling the dirt atop bulwarks nearly 65 ft. (20 m) tall in places. As the mud rises, so must the levees, but so far Lusi seems to be outpacing human engineering. Twice...
...Obamas live about an hour's drive - first on potholed asphalt roads then on a rutted dirt track into the village of Kogelo - from the city of Kisumu, the center of opposition support, standing on the shores of Lake Victoria. The population here is Luo, arch-rivals of President Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. Angry mobs torched shops, bars and garages belonging to Kikuyu businessmen and forced their families to board buses for their tribal homelands in Central Kenya. In spite of the apparent political breakthrough in the capital Nairobi, the anger remains even if the mobs have been called...
...quixotic Ice Man remains determined to prove the power of his invention. His biggest and most successful glacier is also the most remote, meaning that few officials are willing to make the seven-mile hike to see it. One nearer to town has been reduced to a series of dirt pits from neglect and a major flood. Unperturbed, Norphel sees this as a chance to rebuild the perfect showpiece...
...says. “We’ve learned to climb them.” Truer words were seldom spoken. Directors in Hollywood and Bollywood, currently the first and second largest film industries in the world, hardly have to worry whether an ambulance will get stuck in the dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title of Franco Sacchi’s and Robert Caputo’s new documentary says, “This Is Nollywood.”The film was screened earlier this month at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts during...