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Some escapees cannot function in the outside world but are desperate to try. One wheelchair case, angered that his family would not remove him from his nursing home, broke out and was found dead in the Chicago River. But many are streetsmart, eluding police for long stretches, sometimes cadging up to six meals a day at various social agencies...
When the government of Guangdong province in southern China launched a campaign in 2002 to clean up the Pearl River, officials memorably promised that within three years the water would be "neither black nor stinking," and completely clean by the end of the decade. China's environmental regulators have been inching towards those goals: last month, after a government campaign called Operation Green Sword cracked down on more than 80 companies that were allegedly polluting the waterways around Guangzhou, provincial authorities triumphantly declared the Pearl River safe for swimming...
...water. "I think it's crazy." Indeed, doctors have advised swimmers to flush their eyes with antibiotic drops, and to refrain from taking part if they have cuts on their skin, while Guangzhou's Yangcheng Evening News quoted a woman whose training swims in the river left her with diarrhea and eye inflammation. Her sage advice to swimathon contestants: wear a wet suit...
Freshman Seminar 25v. “Avian Influenza: Emerging Infectious Disease”: Beware of the ducks by the Charles River...
...circumstances far different from my September-through-June routine. Summer rowing, like all things associated with summer, is a bit less intense, a bit more jovial, and a great deal more fun than its spring, fall, or winter distillations. The boathouse is warmer, the sun brighter, and the river livelier than during the academic year. And they all make the sport much more pleasant...