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This summer, workers removed dirt from the property, finished the garage facilities and erected the steel girders on the twin buildings. Masonry work on the exterior of the building has also begun, according to Levitan...
...government's Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state has been virtually shut down since 1988, but it keeps spewing out bad news. Last week a federal advisory panel warned that wastes stored at the reservation in buried steel tanks could explode, spreading radiation for many miles...
...Chicago, it will lead you to a dilapidated housing project built atop a former landfill whose fetid odors still rise from the basements after more than 60 years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...
Engineers have outfitted trains and tracks with tougher steel and replaced dual car axles with single axles that swivel to enable cars to take banked turns faster and more smoothly. To prevent meltdown at high speeds, wheels have been enlarged and coated with heavy polyurethane treads...
...years. As a journalist, he chronicled the evolution of the roller coaster for TIME a decade ago. Woodbury found on this trip through the turnstiles that technological advances have made the chills even bigger. "The new rides are faster, meaner and more unpredictable than the old; and the steel, looping coasters that spin riders up, over and sideways require a stronger stomach," he reports. "Fortunately for traditionalists like myself, who savor the symmetry as well as the eerie creak of wood, there are plenty of big, new wooden coasters springing...