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...Major expenses [were] the HUDS barbecue ($28,829) and alcohol service and set-up ($19,899),” McLoughlin wrote in an e-mail. “Cleaning Ohiri Field on Sunday morning cost $6,109, just to pick up trash and remove all broken glass and furniture...
...Taiwan?which in October discovered it too had fire ants?fingers were inevitably pointed. Hong Kong officials complained that Guangdong authorities had left them in the dark; mainland farmers blamed Taiwan for foisting the little terrors on them in the first place, likely stowed away in shipments of recyclable trash. For Hong Kong, news of a fire ant invasion on the eve of the high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health Minister, Dr. York Chow, announced a 300-person search...
...touts the way 311 has bolstered cooperation among departments--for example, how police and sanitation officials joined forces to study patterns of illegal dumping and increase prosecutions. But the true collaborative power of 311 is even more fundamental. When a parks-and-recreation employee calls 311 about a missed trash pickup and a water-department staff member calls after spotting a broken sidewalk, they are, in a way, playing the same pivotal role as those thousands of callers in Chicago in 2002 who, without realizing, predicted where West Nile would strike next. At low cost and with little new bureaucracy...
...this were a dirty bomb, it would be a bomb in a trash can or in a car, let’s say in Boston Common, and the blast would be identical to a car bomb. The impact on [Harvard] physically is nearly zero,” he said. “The radioactivity that would be dispersed by the bomb would most likely be a local event...
Truro has no main street, no stoplights, no trash pickup. Though the area bustles with writers and artists in the summertime, it is quiet, even suffocating, in the off-season. "In the winter, we pay too much attention to each other," a local told the Boston Globe after the murder. None of that attention had turned lethal since 1969, the year of the last homicide. "When you have an unsolved murder in your town, there's this free-floating anxiety," says Truro resident Maria Flook, who wrote a book about the killing...