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Over the past six months the MWRA dramatically increased the capacity of pipes that, during wet weather, carry raw sewage and storm water to its state-of-the-art $43.1 billion Deer Island sewage treatment plant...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Clean-up Efforts of River Continue Despite Setbacks | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Both the Mullards are contemptible. She is a snob about all things British who calls the Chinese "Chinky-Chonks" and tells her host at a Chinese restaurant, "Nothing personal, but we don't touch Chinese food. Never did. All the grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HANDING OVER HONG KONG | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...That's the beauty of this game, when a kid like Forst comes back, smacks the ball around and plays [good] defense," said Walsh after the game, still wet from his Gatorade bath. "That's what coaching's all about, to see something like that happen. It even goes beyond wins and losses...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Goes To NCAA Finals | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Like Radish and Lang, Hanson writes or co-writes its material. It's unfortunate, however, that all three acts have come up with immature, mediocre albums that are as much fun as a wet sandbox. Each album has its moments, but they are fleeting. The marvelous MMMBop is the only really substantial song on Hanson's album (it's one of two tracks on the CD produced by the highly regarded Dust Brothers). Some of Radish's tunes have catchy guitar riffs, but none of their songs catch fire. It is possible to simulate musical maturity; 14-year-old country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ROCKING THE CRADLE | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Folk music is all over the place these days. There's Beck with his hip-hop folk, Ani DiFranco with her punk-folk, and Jewel with her sexy, wet-lipped pop-folk. Relative to that lot, the veteran duo Indigo Girls and newcomer Laura Love sound almost like folk traditionalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: JONI MITCHELL'S DAUGHTERS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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