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...into a maelstrom. Two days after his appointment, Moody's threatened to reduce Vivendi's credit rating to junk status and thus seriously imperil its finances. Fourtou's predecessor, the celebrity CEO Jean-Marie Messier, had leveraged Vivendi to the bursting point. His legacy included opaque accounts, a huge pile of debt--$34.5 billion, of which $5.5 billion had to be repaid within nine months--and no cash...
...also very easy for any girl to dance her way into the open arms of a local graduate student or salsa night regular. The exciting singles scene makes this venue a hot spot for scoping out members of the opposite sex, as evidenced by the large pile of free breath mints available at the well-stocked...
That’s why, despite my protestations to the contrary, this reading period will unfold much like any other: plenty of guilt-ridden sleep-ins, somnolent afternoons spent “working” on reading just about anything else but the pile of glaring sourcebooks and evenings counted in minutes as watching time itself becomes more appealing than that video of lecture from the third week of class. If this doesn’t sound fun, it’s because it isn’t. But the alternative (prioritizing? scheduling? timetables?), much like a particularly tedious Core...
...better view of the situation, John Sparkman guns his flame-red truck up a massive pile of gravel. From the summit, a lifeless brown wasteland stretches to the horizon, like a scene from a science-fiction movie. Mountains of mine tailings, some as tall as 13-story buildings, others as wide as four football fields, loom over streets, homes, churches and schools. Dust, laced with lead, cadmium and other poisonous metals, blows off the man-made hills and 800 acres of dry settling ponds. "It gets in your teeth," says Sparkman, head of a local citizens' group. "It cakes...
...kitchen table, Evona Moss helps her son Michael, 10, with his homework. Michael grew up across the street from a chat pile, and at one point the third-grader's lead levels measured 40% above the Centers for Disease Control's danger level. He repeated kindergarten. "I used to think he was lazy," says his mother, "but he tries so hard. One minute he knows the words, and a half-hour later he doesn't. Every night he kneels down and prays to be a better reader...