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Peru currently produces around 20,000 tons of solid waste daily, according to government statistics. Most of this waste is dumped indiscriminately, ending up in rivers or the Pacific Ocean. A cleanup campaign in late January removed 30 tons of garbage from a 3-mile stretch along the banks of the Rimac, the principal river in Lima. Peru has only eight properly designed and operational landfills nationwide...
...sure, it’s Animal Collective’s most accessible record, but it only invites access on the band’s preconditions—the music never aspires to anything so much as it expects listeners to aspire to the music. Submerged in a seamless ocean of arpeggiated electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers” seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner?...
...prepping yourself than the meal? The chef at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach comes to your rescue packing up a four-course meal of seafood and filet mignon -plus a bottle of champagne- to go. He's even thoughtfully included chocolate croissants for breakfast. $150 for two. 100 South Ocean Blvd, Manalapan...
...Buying land may be complicated because fraud is sometimes difficult to detect. Land in the ocean could be sold as dry land, but confirming the status of real estate is not outside the scope of the federal government's ability to invest its own money wisely. There might even be thousands of new jobs created for "land inspectors" who have, as their sole duty, ascertaining whether a piece of property exists...
...feet. "The whole cockpit fills with an acrid smell," says Horwood, who started noticing the cloud in 1997. "Each year it just gets worse and worse." What comprises this nuisance - a sprawling high-altitude mass of air pollution that stretches from the Arabian peninsula to the western Pacific Ocean - has long captured the curiosity of scientists. A report released in the Jan. 23 issue of Science breathes fresh air into that ongoing study, confirming that the mass, nicknamed the 'Brown Cloud' but comprised of several small, local clouds, is soot from human burning of wood, dung and crop residue...