Word: riversing
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China is using the stimulus package to play catch-up on another front: the environment. Three decades of rapid, unchecked economic growth has turned many of the country's rivers into cesspools and lands into wastelands and much of its air into grimy soup. Some $30.9 billion has been officially...
Carson's 30-year run inspired emulators from Joan Rivers to Chevy Chase, and his 1992 retirement prompted a bitter succession war between David Letterman, the sardonic host of NBC's Late Night, and Leno, a comedian. The network's choice of Leno prompted a round of musical chairs in...
Then a new source of hope appeared. Two days after his Inauguration, Barack Obama made his campaign pledge to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, into an Executive Order. Quickly, the prison's backers made a new pitch: Why not house some of those 240 detainees...
On April 30, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate committee there were up to 100 Gitmo detainees who could be neither tried nor released, and he requested an extra $50 million for a new facility on U.S. soil. Greg Smith, executive director of Hardin's Two Rivers Authority, says...
Until being laid off Jan. 23, husband-and-wife corrections officers Glyn and Rae Perkins were the only employees at the labyrinthine, 93,000-sq.-ft. (8,600 sq m) Two Rivers prison. "Those of us who were involved had such high hopes," she says. "I sit here now watching...