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...engineers decided to shorten the underpass under Boylston St. by about 20 feet, and the Commission voted to replant upstream the 19 sycamores due to be removed during construction of the underpass. Opponents of the underpasses have challenged the accuracy of the MDC claims, however...
Engineers for the MDC project have decided to shorten the proposed tunnel under Boylston Street by about 20 feet. In a recent vote the MDC also asserted that they would replant upstream from the Larz Anderson Bridge many of the 19 sycamores due to be removed...
...assume that a majority of the electorate favors all provisions of this bill. I disagree. And only a national referendum could prove one of us wrong. If the American Mainstream has truly become a polluted effluent bound for the Gulf of Socialism, I will swim upstream with Barry -where the water is clean, the air pure, and the trees tall. This is where the American Dream was spawned...
...Charles still suffers from pollution, even though MPH claims that it is not significant. At present, there are two direct sources of contamination along the ninety mile stream. Untreated sewage comes into the river at Natick, and, further upstream, industrial wastes enter from a woolen finishing factory. Though neither of these sources contribute harmful amounts of pollution, MPH plans to have them eliminated...
Still they come, all year round, to see the famed old man in his storied jungle setting. Public figures like Adlai Stevenson, starry-eyed U.S. Peace Corpsmen, spinster schoolteachers realizing a longstanding dream-all come for a visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At his mission three miles upstream from the Gabonese village of Lambaréné, "the great white doctor," now 88, affably greets them, autographing his books in a fine, steady hand. Yet, after devoting nearly two-thirds of his life ministering to the sick of equatorial Africa and being widely regarded as a near saint, Schweitzer...