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...freak thing,” former Crimson President William E. McKibben ’82 says of the midsummer flood. A pipe had burst, and by the morning the water was gone...
...Corduff is just back from The Hague, where he'd gone to the centennial AGM of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to berate the company over its plans to run a six-mile high-pressure gas pipeline through his neighborhood. The pipe would connect the massive Corrib gas field, 50 miles out to sea, to a 400-acre refinery being built in nearby Ballinaboy. When Shell's surveyors first showed up on his land in 2000, Corduff showed them the gate. By the time they returned in June 2005, armed with a compulsory purchase order, a court injunction...
...park ranger at neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was killed by drug smugglers. Vehicle barriers, which allow animals to pass back and forth, are now in place along parts of the Arizona border. More are planned and will soon be protecting Cabeza Prieta. But drug smugglers have adapted and DiRosa said there has been an increase in backpacking gangs. On the Mexican side, conservationists face the same challenges - one large Mexican refuge has several clandestine airstrips operated by the cartels, which operate with impunity...
...cost plan to pipe satellite television into student dorm rooms via power lines could be implemented in some of the Houses as early as this fall. The final decision as to whether a House will get the technology will lie with its masters...
Even under the most hopeful scenarios, it's doubtful that Mansour and places like it will ever be the same. Pulling out of Kuehl's headquarters, our humvee drives through several inches of dark green sludge that has been seeping out of a broken sewage pipe for a week. We turn toward the center of Mansour, driving along a familiar set of railroad tracks. Looking across the gravel berms, I can see our old street. I see the empty corner where a group of brothers used to grill giant splayed carp, called masgouf, over open coals every evening. Down farther...