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...Congress, says the entire plan went through with virtually no debate, and the decision to pave BR-163 was made without debate, public review or public hearings. The rushed-approval process backfired, however, since the failure to produce an environmental-impact assessment has given opponents an opportunity to stall the project while they regroup. Public-interest lawyers and conservation groups have adopted a strategy of challenging the government to provide assurances on the impact of each aspect of the road, such as its potential effect on various waterways...
...would that produce cooling? Ordinarily the conveyor is propelled by the pull created by masses of water sinking in the North Atlantic. When this pull diminishes, the movement of warm water north in the Gulf Stream could slow or stall, driving down temperatures in Europe and North America, and possibly elsewhere...
Mainland Chinese films are familiar by now: period melodramas with a lot of court intrigue and fabulous silk frocks. So here's a switch: a modern comedy that trumpets its breeziness from its first shots, of a man stepping into a newfangled street stall that gives his body a sort of car wash. The rest, set in a failing Beijing bathhouse, is a genial study of family collision and reconciliation: the yuppie (Pu Cunxin) with his aged dad and slow-witted brother (Jiang Wu). The film is almost too ingratiating (How many times will you hear a fat Chinese...
...scenes like this: A guy in a men's room hears chortling in the next stall, so he puts his ear next to a hole in the wall and gets tickled by an enormous...
...person from Albany St. reported to CPD that a person's arms were hanging from under a toilet stall. Emergency response arrived and revived the person who had overdosed on heroin. Personnel was notified, and the victim was taken to Cambridge Community Hospital...