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...shipyard and replace it with a park. The city, situated across the mouth of the Pearl River from Hong Kong, has a tradition of putting its wealth to good civic use: its tidy streets are adorned with banks of flowers and well-manicured trees, and it has racked up model-city awards from Beijing and the United Nations. But these shiny credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders?their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement. So when the Yuezhong shipworks went bankrupt, it wasn't long before...
...China with spring water. If you use it up to make a giant lake, no one will come here. Right now I'm worried you're going to spend a lot of money, but lose value. Other places have lakes. Why not do something different? You could be a model of innovation...
What will happen when the Hayward Fault--or the San Andreas--goes off? Scientists who study ancient quakes cannot answer that question because it depends on details that sediments do not preserve. But using a new 3-D model of the earth's crust in the Bay Area, USGS geophysicist Brad Aagaard and his colleagues can run simulations that tweak different parameters for earthquakes that have already occurred and for those still to come. The results range from the expected to the quite surprising...
Letourneau fits that model. She has said she fell in love with Fualaau while working with him on a sixth-grade art project when he was 12 and claims that after a while a sexual relationship just seemed "natural." In a phone call recorded by police, Flannigan's student-lover asked the teacher why she had chosen to have sex with him. She reportedly answered, "I don't know why it happened. I don't know why I love you so much...
...billion gal. Expected total fuel savings over the life of vehicles in those model years--less than the U.S. now uses in one month...