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...outdoor 2000 Pearl Jam concert in Denmark, nine people were killed when the fans in back surged forward - despite band members' pleas to step back...
...rate of adult obesity, overtaking the United States. This begs the question: what has fueled the transformation of skinny, marsupial-enthusiast surfers with great accents into unappealing couch potatoes? My very scientific answer: great television. I can’t help but think that, in a country with more outdoor adventures than even the guy from “Man vs. Wild” can handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty cans of Fosters. More specifically than just Aussie TV in general, I point to a kind of irreverent humor that grew...
...energy lighting. The plant outside Antwerp belonged to the consumer-lighting market leader Partners in Lighting, which Philips bought in 2006. The company followed that purchase a year later with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Genlyte, a big U.S. player that makes lights for offices, highways, factories and outdoor advertising. Those deals come on top of its own massive in-house research efforts in R&D labs from Silicon Valley to Eindhoven in the Netherlands...
...spring, officials approved a staggered rate hike that increased prices for low-volume users 17% and for the highest-volume users more than 30%. The city has also unleashed its water cops--officials like Dennis Walker who ride around sprawling new housing developments looking for violations of outdoor-water-use laws. Sprinklers are illegal during the daylight hours, and homeowners have to use a misting system rather than simply hose down the grass. Through ignorance or obtuseness, however, not everyone has gotten the message. At one house, Walker catches a sprinkler spraying a rock garden, the water leaking onto...
...approach, so it’ll be like a practice for me.” But the squad still has its eyes on capitalizing on all the new and returning talent it will sport this season. The women’s side finished fourth at both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal Championships last year, and the Crimson’s strong returners are hoping to build off that. Though there was distance between third and fourth at indoors, the women missed fourth at outdoors by just one point. “We’re hoping to close...