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...soybeans. (After the U.S., Brazil is the world?s largest exporter of the crop.) A Brazilian-American consortium is planning to build an enormous dock-and-loading system in Santar?m, the sleepy port that lies at the junction of the Tapaj?s and Amazon rivers, 700 km from the Atlantic Ocean. Exporting through Santar?m might save agribusinesses $1 per 30-kg bag of soybeans...
...most modern, the Opera House here in Sydney. On the afternoon it was going to arrive at the harbor, I was walking around at Circular Quay. Two Aboriginal homeless people had already taken up positions on a bench. They were sitting in the shadow of this immense ocean liner out of Nassau called the Crystal Harmony, a big boat full of titans with tickets, all of it paid for by IBM. Anyway, these Aboriginals were sitting there, backed by gleaming skyscrapers that are the heart of new Sydney, and the woman asked the man if he were going to wait...
...cascade of fireworks and pumped-up dance moves to "No Strings Attached." My mouth fell open, my feet started to dance and I began to reconsider my marriage proposal from Kevin Richardson. (Especially when he was off getting married to someone else that very week! The nerve!) In the ocean of light-sticks amidst the dark and warm summer night, I thought "Yeah, they're not the Backstreet Boys, but that Justin Timberlake can sure shake his booty...
Following the opening of the $390 million Massachusetts Bay outfall tunnel, treated Deer Island wastewater now proceeds 9.5 miles under the ocean to a point in the middle of Massachusetts Bay. There it is diffused over almost 1000 feet of pipe into Massachusetts...
...violation of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1972, which mandated that cities put all wastewater through two filtering processes before releasing it into the ocean, Boston had been pumping improperly treated sewage into the harbor for years...