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...Ganges or the sheer power of the Yangtze. But in November 2005, this 1,200-mile (2,000 km) waterway made headlines when a chemical plant in the Chinese city of Jilin spilled massive amounts of the toxic chemical benzene, creating a 50-mile (80 km) noxious slick. The chemicals oozed toward the sea, and Chinese cities that drank from the Songhua were forced to cut off supplies, leaving millions to fend for themselves. As the slick passed over the border to the Russian city of Khabarovsk, a problem that began in a single Chinese chemical plant suddenly became...
...what if there were a way to tackle both these problems with one policy: to stimulate demand for American cars while making the U.S. auto fleet cleaner, greener and more efficient? It sounds like the kind of slick two-for-one pitch you might hear from a used-car salesman, but that's exactly what proponents of a "cash for clunkers" program are promising. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Look at our last names. All right, welcome back to this paragraph. You know what kind of guys we are. We probably slick our hair back and eat spaghetti at home EVERY NIGHT. “Mamma mia,” right? Looks like we just found a bigot...
...Grandmaster Flash, né Joseph Saddler, who, along with fellow DJs Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata, formed a veritable holy trinity of hip-hop. In the 30 years since Saddler’s heydey, however, the genre’s rough edges have been whittled down to reveal a slick, commercially malleable force to be reckoned with. With his first studio album in 20 years, the ambitiously titled “The Bridge: Concept of a Culture,” Saddler exposes this tension in its harshest light. The legendary turntablist struggles to remain relevant in the culture that...
...captain Sarah Vaillancourt combined for a pretty goal just over a minute after Overguard was sent to the box.McDonald held the puck at the left circle of the Big Red zone, passed it back to Vaillancourt, and then charged the net. Completing the give-and-go, Vaillancourt fed a slick pass down low and McDonald slammed her second goal of the season past Cornell goalie Amanda Mazzotta, the team’s second-string netminder.The goal catalyzed the Crimson offense, and Harvard controlled the tempo of the game from that point on.“We always get so energetic...