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...with a permanent population of around 25,000, is a case in point. As late as 1987, the village pumped its raw sewage through leaking pipes less than a mile out to sea, where it was laying waste to the nearby reefs and fishing grounds. Outside town, a waste dump had grown into what locals called "Mount Trashmore...
...utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony to admit that he never collected any cans whatsoever, in fear that any such exhibit would fall short of perfection...
...Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient system of municipal boundaries, Delouvrier developed a Paris that is often cited...
...utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian Outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony to admit that he never collected any cans whatsoever, in fear that any such exhibit would fall short of perfection...
Bill Murray: Total consciousness...no, wait, that's from Caddyshack. Actually, just an invite to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and lots of cheerful, clueless old ladies to dump into bunkers as his speed schtick goes...