Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sewage pouring into the Charles River may endanger rowers at the Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend if bacteria levels are too high, according to the Environmental Protection Agency...
...dangerous," Moraff said. "When it rains, the whole river is contaminated. It can be hundreds of times the state level for boating...
...span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from the air like "a giant phallus...
...hard to imagine Londoners allowing such a dramatic intrusion onto their beloved brown river, but the romance of living on a bridge has caught the public imagination, aided by an exhibition of designs at the Academy, where visitors can vote for their favorite. Part of the attraction is no doubt novelty. Only 10 inhabited bridges remain in Europe out of hundreds built before the 16th century--an era when, for sanitary reasons, running water beneath one's window was a notable amenity. Finished in 1209, Old London Bridge boasted not only houses but shops, inns, mills and the decapitated heads...
DIED. SHUSAKU ENDO, 73; widely acclaimed Roman Catholic novelist and a popular Japanese writer in the West; of hepatitis complications; in Tokyo. Author of Deep River, Scandal and Silence, Endo focused on questions of faith and the clash of cultures...