Soggy Amsterdam's test: digging a subway
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Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum &#151; but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it?
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Commuters on the London Underground face relief from hot, stuffy train journeys after Tube bosses revealed plans to use giant &#39;ice-blocks&#39; to cool overheated carriages.
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By SHAUN TOLSON  They'll open doors for you at convenience stores, shake coin- filled cups as you pass them in the subway, even serenade you with their musical stylings on street corners, all hoping to elicit a handout in return.
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Even cars are at risk as floods and building sites drive out rodents from their underground lairs
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The routines of subway delays had conditioned Q train riders to most anything. But a dog on the tracks seemed different.
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It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.
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Since the K5 Emperor of Icecream, eavier, foisted the augean task of ghetto-reviewing onto my skinny shoulders this year, here goes. First, we begin with the grimy w/hole itself, and then move to the individual rotting parts thereof. The obvious changes to the ghetto landscape were: trhurler didn't come back from his hike, MichaelCrawford started giving it away, my kuron brethren were badly trolled by a xanax-popping dysfunctional alcoholic), both Egil and insomnyuk decided to suicidomize themselfs, NIWS/Spellcheckbot attacked (again), and rusty took apart his bathroom and added walls to K5.   Rotting parts inside:
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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You want some New York with your tropical breezes? Try the jackhammering, traffic-snarling mess that someday will be the Caribbean's first subway.
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The train ride was easy.  London was rainy and cold.  So is Paris.  "cheesecake"
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High-speed Wi-Fi Internet access has been tested successfully on the BART subway in the Bay Area.
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By TOBY STERLING AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals Sunday - a unique sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and sex.
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The city of Amsterdam announced Thursday that it will invest up to 15 million euros (21 million dollars) to help clean up its famous red light district by buying brothels there.
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Excavations for the Channel Tunnel rail link show scientists a glimpse of climate change 55 million years ago.
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I SEE from last Thursday's Evening Times that Network Rail hasn't given priority to the excellent Crossrail project to link rail lines south of the Clyde to those in the north and east.  I live in the Merchant City and would dearly love to use the proposed station at Glasgow Cross.
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If nothing else, âUrchinâ tells us that certain New York City subway stations need a bit more security.
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Would-be immigrants into the Netherlands are to face an exam testing their knowledge of everything from Dutch language and history to its laws on topless sunbathing before they can take up residence.