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...experienced there. He makes his work distinct from other travelogues because he does not merely glamorize the scenes and sights of Europe--he adds all of the hilarious anecdotes that have happened to him in his months of travel. Where else will you find Naples depicted as a dump and a description of the view of the sea at Capri as something for which the author would trade eyelashes with Tammy Bakker...
Thought of now as the man who refused to dump fish pizziola, Weissbecker and his former co-workers say that he is the one who added chilled juice at every meal, a salad bar and the basic food table...
LaFontant added that the tenants were finallyfed up with "living in a dump," and that it wastime to take action against landlords who areintimidating the tenants...
...suburbs along the ring of that doughnut, with the help of lobbying leverage and clever zoning laws, are able to treat central Camden as a dump. Today the main inner-city industry is scrap: Camden exports 1.2 million tons a year. The waterfront is lined with piles of twisted metal -- rusty foothills to the backdrop of Philadelphia's skyscrapers directly across the river. And in March of 1990, Camden County opened its first trash incinerator, where 1,500 tons of garbage from the suburbs is trucked each day and turned to steam. To complete the sense of a town left...
...impact of bombs and marauding armies was bad enough. So why did Iraq have to dump millions of gallons of oil into the fragile waters of the Persian Gulf and thus devastate its marine life? And set an estimated 650 oil-well fires that spewed untold tons of smoke into the air? Some of the direst predictions, including altered weather patterns across Asia, failed to materialize, and the well fires were put out in only eight months (actually faster than expected). But in Kuwait itself, the air remained acrid the whole time, and the oil that seeped into the sandy...