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Guizhou province, in southwestern China, is a place of striking natural beauty: jagged peaks surrounded by fields of bright green rape, ridges slashed with limestone outcrops and plunging waterfalls. But these days the region's grandest sight is man-made: the Baling River Bridge. Due to be completed early next year, this 1.4-mile (2.25 km) marvel of engineering is a jarringly conspicuous splash of 21st century technology amid Guizhou's farms and rice fields, which haven't changed much in thousands of years. It's as if the Golden Gate Bridge had been dropped into some bucolic Middle-earth...
...place as it may appear, this is no bridge to nowhere. Soaring a quarter-mile (400 m) above the Baling River, the $216 million span will reduce travel time considerably for the stream of trucks and cars traversing a highway that connects the provincial capital, Guiyang, with the nearest big city, Kunming, the capital of neighboring Yunnan province. Far from resenting the bridge as a white elephant, the residents of nearby Guanling, a one-stoplight town where the average income is less than $150 a year, view it as crucial to economic development and improvement in their lives. "I really...
When Douglas was in high school, Harvard coach Joe Walsh had no intentions of making a hard recruiting push for the South River, N.J. native. But Mike Garlatti, an old acquaintance of Walsh’s and a scout for the Colorado Rockies, had coached Douglas on a fall-season team for high schoolers looking to play at the college level and recommended him to the Crimson skipper...
Quadlings have faced a lot of hard times recently, losing their library, café and potentially some of their shuttle service. However quadlings can now drown their woes with delicious fro-yo. Berryline—a beloved staple in the diets of River dwellers—has come to the quad! Berryline’s new location is on Mass Ave going towards Porter Square, right next to a Starbucks...
...where we want to be.”Earlier in the season, the Tigers had finished 6.8 seconds ahead of the Black and White to win the Class of 1975 Cup while Yale beat Radcliffe for the Case Cup by 5.9 seconds on the April 25 Charles River Challenge.The Black and White showed early season promise by beating Dartmouth and Syracuse on April 18 to win the O’Leary Cup.Both the Varsity Eight and the Second Varsity Eight showed good speed in the second half of the race course to comfortably edge the Big Green and the Orange.But...