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...running but what shape the city will take that will be run by the winner of the Sept. 14 Democratic primary--the vote that counts in this one-party town. Maryland's largest city seems to have more razor wire and abandoned buildings than Kosovo. Meanwhile, the prevalence of open-air drug dealing has made NO LOITERING signs as common as STOP signs. Baltimore, which has a population of 630,000, has sunk under the depressing triple crown of urban degradation: middle-income residents are fleeing at a rate of 1,000 a month; the murder rate has been more...
...transform it into a shrine--a prospect he found horrifying. The farm was sold to a couple from South Carolina, Robert and Mary Gallant, who have made their changes with delicacy and taste. White's chicken coop is now an artist's studio, and the woodshed is an open-air sitting room. The animals are gone from the barn where Charlotte wove her web and Wilbur the pig luxuriated in his manure pile, and sometimes the Gallants lay down Persian rugs and hold a cocktail party there, or set out chairs and tables for a meeting of the local garden...
...make-up game features the Crimson on its own open-air grass field across the Charles, a welcome change from B.C.'s stuffy, acoustically-impaired dome...
...fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation water for much of that part of the country...
...capacity arena boasts a ring of luxury boxes and lounges, open-air concourses replete with concessionaires, a swank, well-equipped press box and nary a bad seat among the bunch...