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...expected that the Red Line will be able to carry passengers from Harvard Square, to Porter Square, up past the city dump, to the aforementioned Alewife...
...Public services have faltered. As the Plain Dealer puts it, Cleveland has two categories of garbage trucks: those that can make it to the dump and those that can't. And the city still has no police chief...
...explosion-so forceful that inhabitants of the Lebanese capital mistook it for an earthquake-erupted shortly after midnight in an ammunition dump in the building's basement. Both the P.L.F. and Fatah kept offices in the building, but innocent people were sleeping in apartments upstairs. Rescue crews found the remains of two Lebanese families and of two young girls who had come to spend the fasting month of Ramadan with their grandmother...
...Sell more Treasury gold, and try to persuade other governments to dump some of their hoards. Gold sales by the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund so far have been too small to affect the price much. The world's central banks and the IMF hold 40,000 tons of gold, about half the total ever mined. If a significant amount were thrown onto the market, the price would be knocked down hard, perhaps to $100 an ounce or so. As the dollar gained in value against gold, it might also rise against foreign currencies as well. But central...
...have sprouted around Saint-Tropez that authorities have opened up campsites that formerly were closed because of lack of toilets and running water. Even that has not been enough. "You can't believe what a day is like here," says a young gendarme at nearby Ramatuelle. "People just dump their garbage wherever they feel like it. Each day we have piles of paper to process. We also have to give fines for unlicensed vendors, even fines for open homosexuality on the beaches. On top of that, my eyes are infected from swimming in the water here...