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...ceiling of Richard Jones' house in Biloxi, Miss., had just caved in, revealing that his roof had been torn away. That was the good news. Half a mile away on that afternoon of Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina sent up 30-ft. storm surges, Jones, 53, knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi...
Harvard University’s Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) spent roughly $20,000 for every mile of sidewalk and road cleared of snow last year, more than twice what the City of Cambridge paid per mile over the same period. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) spent $1.1 million in total on snow removal to clear 125 miles of public roadway and 18 miles of sidewalk last fiscal year, according to Lisa Peterson, commissioner of the DPW. According to Wayne Carbone, head of snow removal for FMO, Harvard spent about half a million dollars last year removing snow from...
...arrested and prosecuted without consideration for due process. Once convicted (and they are invariably convicted), the dissidents are offered the choice of serving lengthy prison sentences or spending four days in the film’s titular wasteland. The “Park” is a fifty-mile-long desert obstacle course that the convicted must navigate by foot, without the benefit of food or water, while avoiding capture by police officers and National Guardsmen. Dissidents who are captured before completing the course are remitted to police custody to serve out their sentences; those who complete it are promised...
...reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50-mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...
...Warren joggled in the race as part of an effort to raise $10,000 for the Afghan Mobile Mini-Circus for Children, where he studied laughter’s healing power. He said he also aims to break the Guinness records for “fastest 100 miles on a unicycle” and “most miles in one hour on a unicycle” to complete his fundraising drive. “Running, juggling, and raising money for charity all have one thing in common—heart,” he said...