... water quality of this reservoir is slightly above average. The water is threatened by sewage and storm water runoff. The Amawalk Reservoir is located in Westchester county, twenty-five miles away from New York City. It can hold 6.7 billion gallons. It has a 19.9 square mile reservoir. It has average ... has a 76 square mile watershed. The causes of its low quality water are sewage and poorly planned development. The Titicus Reservoir is located in Westchester County, thirty-six miles away from New York City. It has a 7.2 billion-gallon capacity. Its watershed is twenty-four square miles. ...

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... , Massachusetts were getting angered and complaining about gay men allegedly soliciting sexual acts and favors in the bathroom of the Boston Public Library. In response to citizen outcry, the Boston Police Department began to aggressively target gay men in the library, utilizing a plainclothes undercover officer to tempt and entice the men into performing sexual acts, which is clearly entrapment. Over the next ... 1978, he founded GLAD – the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. The first case GLAD filed was Doe v. McNiff in 1979. In this case, Ward accused the Boston Public Library...

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... Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Proposition", a satirical review. It was also the launch pad for bands like the "New York Dolls," "Ruby and the Rednecks," "Teenage Lust," and Wayne County's "Queen Elizabeth and the Harlots of 42nd Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar, decked in drag and finery. The lounge, called Obie Alley, was the scene ... of Punk rock were planted and germinating. The streets and suburbs or early 80's Los Angeles were crawling with teen rebels. We were sick of hippies and we hated disco. L.A. County was a breeding ground for frustrated, bo...

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... conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks through New York City and visits to her mother's library further enhanced Dorothea's role as an outside observer. She and her mother took the ferry from New Jersey to New York every day, and when Mrs. Nutzhorn worked nights, Dorothea ... harm to herself. This ability, as well as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She...

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... conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks through New York City and visits to her mother's library further enhanced Dorothea's role as an outside observer. She and her mother took the ferry from New Jersey to New York every day, and when Mrs. Nutzhorn worked nights, Dorothea ... harm to herself. This ability, as well as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She...

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... that on take-home pay of $400 a week. In May 1992 Dowd, four other officers and one former officer were arrested for drug trafficking by police in Long Island's Suffolk County. When the arrests hit the papers, it was forehead slapping time among police brass. Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but the crimes had to be uncovered ... before. In the 1980s Philadelphia saw more than 30 officers convicted of taking part in a scheme to extort money from dealers. In Los Angeles an FBI probe focusing on the L.A. County sheriff's department has resulted so far in 36 indictments and ...

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... Legation in London. He carried the manuscript of "Typee" abroad with him. "Typee" proved suitable for  John Murray's new series of inexpensive and wholesomely factual books, the Colonial and Home Library, though Murray at first thought he detected "a practiced writer" and had to be reassured. Optimistic that he was protected against piracy by a recent copyright law, he offered 100 pounds for ... ...

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... check, and thesaurus it to his heart's content. If he chooses, it can even be wiped clean out of RAM for ever, with the click of a button. The British Museum's library holds many great specimens of famous manuscripts, of which the writers were forced to toil over revision. Today we rarely have such insight into the process of writing now as ... ...

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... the time of the move was Walter O'Malley, who was known as one of the better businessmen in baseball during this time. When the move was made the Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who assisted O'Malley finding the proper area to play, had this to say about O'Malley "His warm Irish humor with his sound business judgment combined for the ... ...

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... Florida. "Troopers stopped about 350 cars, many of them juiced-up Hondas and Toyotas, and arrested 172 people in a sting targeting drag racers. Eleven people have been killed in Broward County, Florida in the past two years in drag racing accidents. Last week, a man speeding at more than 100 mph northwest of Orlando accidentally plowed into a slower moving car being driven ... ...

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... York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, among others. In addition to the 1973 retrospective, which traveled from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia to ... ...

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... vacant brown fields. Fear of environmental contamination has inhibited their efforts to date. The rate of poverty in New Britain is 12.80% as opposed to a 7.90% rate for Hartford County and a 6.61% rate for the overall State. As in most major cities, high rates of poverty contribute towards crime and drug problems, and an increasing population of low-income families ... ...

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