... "local control" and "independence from imported water." Last winter, the valve between the sewage plant and the drinking-water plant whooshed open, and a new era in California's water history began. When I visited the plant, a sprawl of modern buildings behind a concrete wall, in March, Wildermuth, in a blue sport coat and bright tie, acted as my guide. "Quick!" he shouted at one point, mounting a ledge and clinging to the rail over a ...

... wilderness into a networked, layered, and interwoven mass of asphalt-spreading, carbon-coughing, concrete-lining, pipeshed-connecting, aqueduct-flowing, levee-bunkering, grid-generating, wireless-transmitting, urban-sprawling, mall-cloning, river-damming, and resource-consuming experiment in human unconsciousness. Dams provide that tempting illusion of prosperity whose short-term gains literally vandalize the future of civilization and ...

... Anthony Davis faces execution on September 23rd. Go here to learn more. Prison Boulevard begins on a lonely Georgia highway and sweeps across lush grounds and a serene lake populated with ducks. One might expect a sprawling ranch house at the end of this country road in Jackson, but there rises instead the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison, a mammoth institution whitewashed to a glare. To reach death row inmates, visitors ...

... denizens, in terms of jobs, mortgages, affordable health care and much more. Rust Belt towns and cities have been boarded up. In many parts of the country, perfect-pitch America has passed into a world of agribusiness, housing sprawl, Wal-Marts and fast food strips -- a lot like life apparently is in Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Palin was a small-town mayor. And who is left out of the idyllic, nonexistent vision of "America" so adored ...

.... With the advent of the car those spaces filled up No, Doug. Those spaces filled up because more houses were built to meet the demand for those who wanted to move to a more centralised location. You bang on about urban sprawl but WTF do you think you're going to end up with if you move everyone to the cities? They've got to live somewhere. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't...

...> Indeed. But for Doug and those morons to bleat on about society being more dispersed as if it has never been that way is just bollox. And they must be terminally fucking stupid if they don't think that moving everyone from small towns etc to cities isn't going to increase urban sprawl and distance travelled. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams

... my laugh wants? "The charioteer, as though recoiling from the starting gate, yanks back more intensely the bit from the mouth of the wanton horse, thoroughly bloodies its jaws and evil-speaking tongue, and, making the horse sprawl to the ground on its limbs and hips, gives it a painful lashing. The beatings do not stop until the sexual animal finally cowers in a corner, forced somewhat into compliance because it is hobbled by terror. ...

... and given a six-month sentence. Demoralized and facing destitution, Tang sold his house and rented a room in the nearby town of Hengjie, a once-rural enclave that has in recent years become absorbed into Hangzhou's industrial sprawl. Jiang Beigen, his landlord, said Tang paid $53 a month for an unfurnished room. According to Jiang and other tenants, Tang owned only one shirt and a single pair of pants, both of which he washed by hand at...

On 24 Jul, 12:37, thagor2...@googlemail.com wrote: Probably a good thing in hindsight. Now its still fairly green around that area. If the tube had gone out that way it would have been another few miles of urban sprawl. Though who knows, in a parallel universe maybe its been built ... :o) I'm in a mixed mind about that. I agree, it is still lovely and green around here, but so is Elstree & Borehamwood, with a mainline connection ...

...) to go as far as the full route to Watford. Probably a good thing in hindsight. Now its still fairly green around that area. If the tube had gone out that way it would have been another few miles of urban sprawl. Though who knows, in a parallel universe maybe its been built ... :o) Anyway , the northern line has enough trouble coping with its length as it is. Can you imagine the service if it had another 5 miles on track bolted on ...