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...major problem that has been solved is the stagnation and oxygen depletion of a layer of slat water in the river that lies beneath a layer of lighter fresh water. A $700,000 system of six bubblers installed three years ago by the MDC and the Environmental Protection Agency now pumps air into the deepest part of the basin to mix and oxygenate the water, Ferullo said...
...Charles River Dam, which went into operation last February, will prevent more slat water from entering the basin. The dam will also provide better flood control than the former dam upstream at the Boston Museum of Science...
...islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here know only fishing," observed Hoang Quoi Hung, 47, a former seafood-industry official from Haiphong. "They think that...
...Organization of American States, who last October auctioned off three rare 24-in.-high falabella ponies on the dance floor. The newest In place is The Apple Tree. The interior resembles a cross between a carpenter's loft and a berserk florist's, with wooden-slat love seats hung by chains from the ceiling, planters full of chrysanthemums, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and South American fishing baskets. Says Co-Owner Rick Parker, 23: "We built it to attract females." It does; they favor dark-red Clara Bow lips, heavy smoky eyelids and multilayered mascara, with plumage ranging from...
...plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience, nothing but a distance that had grown through the years...