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...We’ve just been playing together more and reading each other better,” said Dick in explanation of her scoring surge. “There have been rebounds and little dump passes. It hasn’t been...
...building projects. Now is the time because Americans have been knocked out of their complacency and greed into a fit of patriotism and sacrifice and are less likely to engage in irritating and detrimental NIMBYism. While Americans are certainly not naive enough to believe that building a new garbage dump will help win the war on terrorism, the country is nevertheless in a new state of mind right now, and if the money were allocated, the government would likely find it a lot easier to navigate through the webs of regulation and red tape that hinder and delay new government...
...remains of the World Trade Center are also being buried. The debris is being trucked from the pit at the center of Ground Zero at a rate of a dozen dump trucks an hour; as of Saturday, the city had already hauled out more than 20,000 tons of debris. It is being driven over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which is closed to traffic, to a 3,000-acre landfill on Staten Island that used to be the city's main dump. The FBI then sifts all the debris for evidence. By the time the operation is completed, an estimated...
Kennecott Utah Copper, the mine's operator since 1903 and owner of some 40,000 developable acres in the western valley, has passed its golden age, when the pit was bottomless and facilities could pump and dump waste with abandon. Times have changed. A pound of copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There...
...MAKIKO TANAKA The fiery Foreign Minister?nicknamed "Troublemaker"?is the last person Koizumi needs to handle the weakest part of his portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...