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...life in marshes, coral reefs and cities. But a half-century ago, everyone else deemed it a mosquito-infested alligator swamp that was in the way of sugar fields and pink ranch houses. So the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built canals and levees to drain, rechannel--and utterly trash--eons of delicate natural plumbing. Result: 90% of South Florida's wading-bird population is gone, and the human population, set to double to 12 million in 50 years, is facing potentially catastrophic shortages of drinking water, partly because drainage canals carry off too much water to the Atlantic Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Stand | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Bargain hunters can pick up a lam (top floor, all the way in the back), a trash can and a small fan--for a total of less than $25--at Dickson Brothers...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Bargains in the Square | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Bargain hunters can pick up a lam (top floor, all the way in the back), a trash can and a small fan--for a total of less than $25--at Dickson Brothers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finding Bargains in Harvard Square | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...miscarriages, abortions, rest cures and frenzied press conferences announcing her desire to be left alone. Her death has been variously attributed to an accidental overdose, political necessity and a Mob hit. Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder for everything from a failed Broadway musical to Jackie Susann's trash classics to a fictionalized portrait in Miller's play After the Fall. Marilyn's media-drenched image as a tragic dumb blond has become an American archetype, along with the Marlboro Man and the Harley-straddling wild one. Yet biographical trauma, even when packed with celebrities, cannot account for Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blond MARILYN MONROE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...promising not to create trash or traffic in its vicinity--and by providing public bathrooms--the Cahalys and their tenants received a coveted fast food license from the city...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Old Carriage House | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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