Word: waterfronts
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...fury on Mexico and Cuba. At its approach, Florida kids celebrated school being called off; some even went on hurricane sleepovers. On Sunday night before the storm hit, Jonathon Pedroz, 13, ate pizza and played 2 Fast 2 Furious video games with friends in a 23rd-floor waterfront condominium north of Miami. They fell asleep at 3 a.m., but were roused at dawn when Wilma arrived with more than 100 m.p.h. winds. Since Wilma came ashore on Florida's west coast, many had hoped it would weaken before it hit the east; instead it sped across the Everglades like...
...example, was in Cleveland this summer. The city has its charms, and the waterfront is nice, but something tells me I won’t be moving to Ohio anytime soon. At least Spoon and the Pixies came to town; along with Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats (those two it-boys of sensitive singer-songwritering) I spent a summer that was more tragic than hip. My song was “This Year,” the Mountain Goats’ tragic but exuberant story of adolescent defiance...
...redesigned to provide parking on the lower floors so that any future flooding would not reach the floors where patients and medical records would be kept. After the 1989 earthquake collapsed sections of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, the city demolished elevated segments and developed a splendid park and waterfront esplanade. "We didn't replan the city," says Mary Comerio, author of Disaster Hits Home, a study of six postdisaster reconstruction efforts. "But we took these terrific opportunities to remake pieces...
...hate for this to be considered a stretch of Harvard’s river,” said Margaret Van Deusen, deputy director of the Charles River Waterfront Society...
...Miede’s experience aboard the Silver Line is exactly what MBTA officials claim the newest branch of the T offers—a quicker, less stressful way to get to and from Logan, and one that will also revitalize the South Boston waterfront, and the route will provide a seamless trip from the Square to as far as the South End and Roxbury...