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...evacuated, dozens of factories had to shut down, schools were closed and commercial traffic on the river was halted. The oil entered the Ohio River at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, and by week's end the scene had been replayed downriver as far as Steubenville, Ohio, where an ice jam slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling, W. Va., was bracing for the onslaught, and contamination was feared along the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland...
With 13 mintutes left in the third period, PeteCiavaglia swiped a puck at the mid-line and brokedown the right side of the ice. He went one-on-onewith Colwey, trying to jam the puck past him intothe right corner of the cage...
...BOOK is jam-packed with fascinating rules of thumb from a bygone age. Read Iacocca's book and you'll get nothing but attitude and abstraction. Iacocca would probably tell you to keep your money in real estate or mutual funds. But poker player Johnny Moss has more practical advice: keep your cash in a wad with a rubber band around it--"so's you can throw it in the bushes case you're hijacked...
Most Gazans must earn their meager daily bread in Israel. Some 50,000 jam the 44-mile route to Tel Aviv each dawn to sweep streets and haul garbage and build houses. By supplying Israel with cheap labor, Gaza has virtually eliminated unemployment. Even so, Palestinians deeply resent the forced dependence. "We are enslaved," says Rashad Shawwa, 79, mayor of Gaza, who was twice removed from office by Israeli officials. "We have become the servants of Israel...
Boston's Blackstone Block is just such a marvelous chunk of city. Wedged between restored Faneuil Hall Marketplace and city hall, Blackstone Block is a seemingly haphazard labyrinth of buildings from several centuries strung along narrow, zigzagging streets. This jam-packed patchwork is, in extremely concentrated form, the natural look of cities, of anything created over time by many hands. Certain tacit rules apparently governed the 250-year accretion of buildings in Blackstone Block -- rules about material (red brick) and height (seven stories maximum) -- but within those constraints houses and workshops were demolished and built as circumstances demanded over...