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Water from the Hobbs Brook Reservoir spills naturally through streams and ponds into the Stony Brook Reservoir. From there, the water flows downhill in an underground pipeline to Cambridge, where it is collected at Fresh Pond...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin and Robin J. Stamm, S | Title: How You Get Your Water | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

Barnes says the occasional brown color of the water is due to a combination of water from underground sources and surface water from rain, lakes, streams, which results when Fresh Pond drops below a certain level, as it did this fall...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin and Robin J. Stamm, S | Title: New Water Facility Planned | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...hundred years ago these were rural areas, but not any more," Duehay says. "Waltham has developed underground sewage and gasoline tanks in the area of the [Hobbs Brook] Reservoir...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin and Robin J. Stamm, S | Title: New Water Facility Planned | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...preach that his followers should ready themselves for a final battle with unbelievers. The Waco settlement, once a collection of old cottages scattered around 78 acres of scrub pasture and woods, was consolidated into a compact fort the size of a city block. Having equipped it with an underground bunker and an armory -- adjacent to the chapel -- cult members discussed renaming the place Ranch Apocalypse. Federal agents began tracking frequent shipments of firepower that they say amounted to 8,000 lbs. of ammunition and enough parts to assemble hundreds of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Some time ago a package addressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Koresh: Cult Of Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...TITLE OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S LIFE WITH AN IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Mar. 15, 1993 | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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