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...Harvard Graduate School of Design removed 3,750 pounds of gravel from the roof of Gund Hall and replaced it with different amounts of organic substrate on Friday afternoon to test different cost-effective methods of green roof retrofitting...
...recent days some cynics mumbled that the Masters isn't a real test of Woods's future viability, because it is the golf equivalent of a cathedral - rich in ceremony and decorum. Surely the kid gloves would be donned in a place where young men wear blazers to sweep gravel from the walkways, and ushers politely guide patrons to the urinals, and refreshments are cheaper than fast-food, because the usual sports venue price gouging is considered poor manners. Hecklers could never get through the gate because Masters tickets aren't sold to the public; they're inherited, like bone...
...knew who started it - that residents should keep their doors and windows locked. Some residents figured an inmate might have escaped from the nearby state prison. It turns out all the commotion was over a group whose alleged leader lived in a double-wide trailer that sits down the gravel road from the local wiring plant where he worked...
...coyotes have loped off, and the rattlesnakes have crawled under the construction trailers for shade and safety. Bulldozers have scraped away the mesquite to make a board-flat rectangle 10,000 ft. by 200 ft. Workers have begun putting down layers of gravel, packed earth, asphalt and concrete 42 in. thick to form a runway. The age of space tourism is here...
Engineers are frantically working to strengthen the dam, installing a "grout curtain," or, as Triplett explains, basically applying huge amounts of caulk, to firm up where the edges of the dam anchor into gravel. Because the engineers can't be sure that the patched dam will hold - and there is even a real possibility that the repair work could just ensure that the gravel collapses in one chunk, as opposed to failing in pockets - should the anticipated rains arrive, the only relatively safe option will be to deliberately release the dam. "What is crystal clear is that there will...