Word: overcrowdedness
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Sounds brilliant—except for the fact that the proposal will be surely laughed out of the legislature. Even Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who normally get along like Frosty the Snowman and a tanning bed, are united in...
DK: It’s about the Paris catacombs, which is a large underground morgue that runs in caverns under Paris. It was constructed from 1786-1788 before the French Revolution for reasons of public health. The cemeteries in Paris were overcrowded and they had to move the bodies. I?...
But what's good for American farmers is rotten for China's. By some estimates, WTO entry will drive 10 million more Chinese farmers to look for work in overcrowded cities, where they will compete for jobs with people laid off from state-owned enterprises. "Cutting agricultural subsidies will be...
The Rosarios are some of the 25,000 people who had to flee their homes after the Sept. 11 attacks. These urban refugees packed suitcases with as much as they could carry, leaving much behind. Some continue to stay with family and friends; others reside in hotels. For all the...
If his religious and political views were mainstream Egyptian middle class, so was his uphill struggle for a good education, a well-paying job and the means to marry and raise a family in one of the world's most overcrowded and impoverished cities. College friends still don't believe...