Word: sprawling
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...booming of America has many causes. Population growth in city centers, loss of rural land to suburban sprawl, and the soaring number and size of cars on the highways all play a role. So too does the entertainment industry, with Walkmans, iPods and surround-sound theaters pouring noise into consumers' ears. Even sports stadiums, always noisy places, have got louder as earsplitting commercials fill the comparatively quiet interludes that used to prevail during pauses in the action. Also to blame are moves made in Washington more than a generation ago. In 1972, the Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC...
...boatman sees a ship pass in the distance, dives into the sea and swims frantically for it. He soon drowns. And by the ninth day, people inside the crowded boat begin to die of thirst and exposure, and most of the rest are semiconscious. Abdi Salan lies amid the sprawl of bodies on the boat's floor, thinks about his family and friends in Mogadishu, and prepares to die. When Abdi Salan's boat was discovered on Oct. 19, after 15 days at sea, with 13 corpses and 15 survivors aboard and an unknown number lost along...
Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...
...Brookfield Farm in Amherst, Mass., which serves more than 500 Boston-area homes, shareholders are raising $150,000 to build a new barn. At Watershed, subscribers bring lawn chairs just to sit and watch, beaming like proud parents over the swath of farmland they have saved from suburban sprawl. And at Huasna, families bond over garlic-popping parties--sitting on the Skinners' porch, sorting cloves for next year's planting and swapping recipes. "We're not just selling stuff," says Jenn Skinner. "We've put our heart, soul and sweat into growing this food. We are connected to the people...
...high demand for housing close to jobs and to Harvard. New mid-rise graduate student residential housing would remove students from the rental market, relieving pressure on rents for the rest of the community. A height limit as low as 24 feet, however, would lead to unnecessary sprawl and perpetuate high rents in the area...