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Los Angeles River tries on new role LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — As they stood on the bank, the small and eager group exchanged the requisite disparaging jokes about the Los Angeles River, best known for its uninviting concrete channels that make many think of a drainage ditch. “You think we’ll turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle if the water touches us?” asked Aaron Goldstein, one of the group. They could be forgiven for their dark humor. After all, there had not been an approved float trip down the river in more than seven decades. But in a few minutes, the 10 people gathered in Balboa Park, about 20 miles northwest of downtown, would take to the river in kayaks and canoes, as part of a pilot project to allow paddling on the waterway. For advocates who have spent decades fighting politicians who suggested that the river be paved over for a new freeway, the inaugural boat rides are the best sign yet that a revitalization is coming — at least on the sections lined with willow trees and cattails. “Every great city has a river,” said Steve Reizes, 50, a property manager who occasionally bikes along part of the river to commute from his home in Sherman Oaks to his office downtown. “They market riverfront properties and restaurants and all kinds of things. Why shouldn’t we have that, too?”
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TRIPOLI, Libya (NY Times) — Rebels intensified their hunt for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his sons on Thursday, engaging in a ferocious fight with loyalists in a neighborhood of apartment blocks near his former Tripoli fortress, as Western officials said NATO was actively helping in the effort to find the elusive leader. But in a new taunt, Colonel Qaddafi urged Libyans in a brief audio broadcast to cleanse Tripoli of the insurgents, whom he called “rats, crusaders and unbelievers.” The broadcast, carried on loyalist chan-
nels, came amid other indications that even with an accelerated momentum by the rebels in the Libyan uprising, strong pockets of resistance remained in Tripoli and other parts of the country, which Colonel Qaddafi ruled for the past 42 years. Colonel Qaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, added to the defiant message in a telephone call to the Cairo Bureau of The Associated Press. He gave no clue to the whereabouts of Colonel Qaddafi or his family but said the Libyan leader’s morale was high,
Hurricane Irene moves slowly NAGS HEAD, N.C. (NY Times) — As Hurricane Irene inched north toward North Carolina on Thursday, some people in this resort area packed their cars and boarded up their windows. Others, among them diehard vacationers, said they were staying put a while longer. “We paid for a whole week; we’re staying,” said Erica Shore, 18, who arrived here on Saturday and said she and her friends planned to drive off the island at precisely 6 a.m. Saturday, just hours before the hurricane is expected to make landfall in the southeastern part of the state.
In a bulletin issued Thursday morning, county officials said they expected the highways and roads in low-lying areas to be flooded when the storm comes ashore. Two shelters will open in the county on Friday morning. Hurricane Irene — which on Thursday was a Category 3 storm with wind gusts of up to 125 miles per hour — has been moving slowly over the Bahamas since Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and power failures. Twelve inches of rain is expected to fall on the island nation before the storm veers northward.
and that he was in command and capable of withstanding any rebel onslaught for “weeks, months and years.”Hundreds of wounded fighters and civilians streamed into Tripoli hospitals from the new clashes in Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighborhood, adjacent to Colonel Qaddafi’s former Bab al-Aziziya compound, which was overrun by rebels on Tuesday. Rumors swirled in the capital that insurgents fighting in Abu Salim had cornered Colonel Qaddafi or at least one member of his family. The claims were impossible to verify.
Amid fears of radioactive food, Japan lifts ban on beef from disaster area
TOKYO (NY Times) — Despite continuing fears over the safety of food from the area of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has lifted a ban on beef shipments from there that it had imposed just a month ago, when meat contaminated with radioactive material was found to have reached Japanese supermarkets. The decision to lift the ban underscores the difficulty faced by the government. Officials are eager to minimize the harm to farmers from the Fukushima area and to bring the local economy back to normal, but they are also trying to repair the damage to their credibility from the handling of the nuclear disaster. The discovery of radioactive cesium in a number of products last month has greatly undermined public trust in the safety of produce from the region, even if, as the government says, the amount that was found was tiny.
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