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...systems, according to the U.N. And it's not just the developing world that needs to ramp up investment. The U.S. will have to spend as much as $41 billion a year until 2019 to maintain its water infrastructure, according to one Congressional Budget Office study--that's almost twice the $21.6 billion invested in 1999. "We've got thick pipes from the 19th century becoming obsolete at the same time as thinner ones laid after World War II," says Peter Cook, executive director of the National Association of Water Companies. "If we don't invest more, we're going...
...next game is Sunday against Quinnipiac at Jordan Field. It will be an important test of the team’s resiliency as it tries to rebound in time for the beginning of Ivy League play. “We just need to come back and work twice as hard in practice,” Martin said. “And come into the game on Sunday and just blow Quinnipiac away...
...appearance if you don’t want people to think you’re a creeper. I know it’s cold out and those were a nice pair of gloves that you found on the subway, but the bloodstains on them might make some people think twice before swiping you into the entryway. As I alluded to earlier, make sure you don’t have an unruly beard that looks sketchy. This is especially true if you are a girl...
...Romney, meanwhile, has taken a whisk broom to his record in liberal Massachusetts, where he twice ran for statewide office as a pro-choice candidate dedicated to "full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens." He now says he opposes Roe v. Wade and describes himself as "a champion of traditional marriage." In Massachusetts, he bucked the National Rifle Association by supporting the Brady Bill and an assault-weapons ban, boasting, "I don't line up with the NRA." Lately he brags that he has joined the gun-rights organization as a life member. He did that in August...
...thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur to her that something was wrong. "We were our own little business," says Jackson. "We used to joke that...