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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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 »

However CSO output only occurs in extremely wet storms and is a mixture of raw sewage and rainwater that seeps into overflowing sewage systems. It is a concrete problem which can be easily solved if money is provided to update disposal systems...

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

...wet, chilly Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament against B.U. (10-6-3), Harvard's hopes seemed as gloomy as the afternoon. Terrier forward Nick Bone scored on a cross pass from back Dean Smith in the first 52 seconds...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Men's Soccer Blasts Into NCAAs | 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 »

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 »

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