Word: rivers
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Plastic Seaweed. As usual, man has contributed his share to the process of erosion. He has lined the beaches with hotels, apartments and roads, leveled the high dunes that blocked his view, thus stripping them of their protective grasses. Navigational jetties, jutting into the sea to protect shipping at river mouths, and man-made inlets change the pattern of offshore currents and block the littoral flow of sand to downdrift beaches, literally starving them out. There is no easy way to combat erosion. All along the Atlantic, communities have lined their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping...
...been victorious in nine of 11 meetings against Harvard as well. Few people realize, however, that one of the major cogs in the B.U. machine these past few years, All-American defenseman and junior co-captain Jack O'Callahan, nearly spent four years on this side of the Charles River...
Tear Gas & Rumors. A few cities disregarded the lessons learned at such cost in previous summers. When 1,000 high-spirited Negro youths cut classes in Kansas City, Mo., and marched on city hall to complain that their brothers across the river in K.C., Kans., had been given a day off from school in tribute to King, Mayor Ilus W. Davis acted sensibly to calm them by linking arms with a band of black ministers and accepting the offer of a Roman Catholic priest to give the students an afternoon of rock music at a nearby church. Davis, aided...
...students call it, was founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1901 as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Since that time, its hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River have attracted some of the world's most eminent scientists. Rockefeller researchers, including eight Nobel prize winners (four of them still on the staff) , have produced such breakthroughs as the identification of the Rh blood factor and the discovery that a tumor can be induced by a virus...
...just ten minutes, on May 31, 1889, a busy mountain-valley Pennsylvania steel town was wiped out, with 2,209 dead. A soaking rain had begun to fall a day earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some...