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...Athletic Department put in a new softball field, and did extensive draining, leveling and reseeding of the chronically wet portions of the fields...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...Emergency Service Center is the only "wet" shelter in the area taking active alcoholics from Cambridge and Somerville--even those who are visibly intoxicated when entering the center...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Fighting to Keep A Square Alive | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...Athletic Department put in a new softball field, and did extensive draining, leveling and reseeding of the chronically wet portions of the fields...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...Athletic Department put in a new softball field, and did extensive draining, leveling and reseeding of the chronically wet portions of the fields...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...result is desertification, a gradual conversion of marginal land into wasteland. This process is often driven by population pressures, which force people to work lands unsuitable for agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, settlers move into an area when it is wet and green, and then stay and remove the ground cover when the inevitable drought returns. Without a green barrier to stop them, sand dunes march inexorably forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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