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...evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine wildlife refuges that rim the lake; about 4,000 acres of fresh-water marsh, home to some 7 million waterfowl and countless shore birds, have been destroyed by the briny advance. Utah officials are considering several solutions, including dams to catch spring snow runoff and an enlargement of the culverts through the railway causeway...
With 54 seconds remaining and his team clutching a one-point lead. Quakers forward Avery Rawlings hit the first of two free throws. As the second shot bounced off the rim. Little leapt up and tripped it in before any other player had the time to leave his feet instead of having the ball with a chance to tie the game, the Crimson faced a four point deficit...
...spirited upturn this year and says the long-term future looks even brighter. Still, in the other part of Chicago, the old world of smokestacks and stockyards, the recession dominates. The city has lost 160,000 jobs in the past decade, mostly in manufacturing. The steel mills that rim Lake Michigan from Chicago to Burns Harbor, Ind., are idling. Giant International Harvester, long one of the city's most robust corporations, is on the brink of bankruptcy, and the aging Wisconsin Steel plant has closed. Unemployment stands at 12.8%, with 190,967 people out of work More than...
...midst of green savannah stretching undisturbed for miles lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...dragged off stage at a time when many things [in the course] were left hanging." Fletcher told his class. He then took off his wire rim glasses and began discussing the decline of the Mongolian empire. He glanced occasionally at prepared notes, but spoke mostly extemporaneously...