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Timothy Watkins, an engineer who had been dispatched to the area by the Cambridge DPW to check the situation, said that there was nothing out of ordinary with the working of the pipe known officially as Combined Sewer Overflow number nine...
Residents of the 10-man suite said they have guests for major television events, such as Monday Night Football and the presidential debates. They said they decided to ask for the television because the house committee voted last year to buy one for the Currier's overflow housing in Coggeshall...
Speaking to an overflow crowd of more than 700 at MIT, Chomsky, MIT Professor of Physics Philip Morrison and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sheila Widnall discussed how MIT should be involved with ethics...
...Beijing tried to ward off the threat by warning unwary citizens about the evils of sex. Their efforts were ignored. These days the government permits public lectures and seminars for government workers on such previously forbidden subjects as masturbation, premarital pregnancy and sex crimes, and the talks are attracting overflow crowds across the country. "We hear much about China's four modernizations," says Shanghai Sociology Professor Liu Dalin. "We should add a fifth one: the modernization of the senses...
...what began as a logistical nightmare. Having failed to snare the 72,000-seat Louisiana Superdome for its convention, the party was faced with the task of squeezing 35,000 delegates, press, VIPs and security staff into Atlanta's 17,000-seat Omni Arena. The solution: to funnel the overflow into the adjacent Georgia World Congress Center and nearby hotels and then tie the whole conglomeration together with video monitors, shared computer files and electronic mail. The result is a computer system that, the committee claims, "equals or excels ((that of)) many FORTUNE 500 companies...