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...punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with cadmium--which may explain, local doctors say, why three different kidney dialysis centers have opened here to serve a population of only...
Cambridge has already switched off its neon signs and painted the tops of its street-lights. The U.T. at eight o'clock looks as if the last show was over. Harvard students have been asked to keep their shades down in lighted rooms, but the results to date have been far from perfect. It may be a nuisance, and it may even block off the evening breeze, but this might be one sacrifice that is worth the effort. It may save a ship and the lives of thirty...
...some critics, what Sondheim and book writer John Weidman put onstage in 1991 was disaster enough. A carnival barker, under neon signs blaring HIT THE PREZ! WIN A PRIZE!, opens the show by luring in a parade of customers like John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley and Charles Guiteau, the "disappointed office seeker" who shot President James A. Garfield. Hinckley and Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme--wannabe assassins of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, respectively--sing a duet about unrequited love, in their cases for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson. One musical number ends in an electrocution, another in a hanging. Samuel Byck...
...from an effective substitute for one. Many students who have attempted to utilize HUPD for a ride complain that because of HUPD’s other obligations, cruiser service is woefully sluggish, leaving them waiting for 45 minutes on occasion. And by three in the morning, the neon-vested forces of the new Harvard University Campus Escort Program have long ceased traversing Garden Street...
...desks, otherwise known as Harvard’s own Hamptons for those in the know. All the scrabble for a window seat in that place could have an outside observer convinced the framed view was a shimmering waterview rather than a not-so salubrious streetscape crowned with the glowing neon signage of the Kong...