Word: overcrowdedness
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The prehistoric Lascaux caves in France's Dordogne region were closed in 1963 because the presence of tourists was destroying the 17,000-year-old paintings on their walls. Now Lascaux II, a replica built nearby in 1983 to give visitors a sense of the Cro-Magnon artwork, has become...
"On the right you've got the fiscal conservatives, who ever since Proposition 13 ((which launched the tax revolt in 1978 by cutting property taxes)) have said, 'We don't want to pay for growth,' " he says. "On the left you've got the liberal environmentalists. And then you've...
Orlando spends tax money, for example, to have workers pick cigarettes out of tree planters, but the Florida Symphony Orchestra, one of Orlando's major cultural adornments, almost folded four months ago for lack of community support. Orlando faces all the pressing burdens of a boomtown, from lengthening traffic lines...
Who will be interested in reading Tabula Rasa's articles "of any length, on any subject"? It is difficult to see the excitement generated by another random magazine written by random people on random subjects. Tabula Rasa is just another piece of flotsam on the engorged stream of Harvard literary...
It was impossible to deliver his first lecture in such an overcrowded hall, Donald recalls, so he gave a few words of introduction, distributed the syllabuses, and ended class. As students began inching their way out of the classroom, one approached Donald, touched his arm, and exclaimed, "It's so...