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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...