Town fears avalanche of water

February 15th, 2008 | by admin |

Town fears avalanche of water

Old mining buildings and shafts are pictured east of Leadville, Colo., in this Friday, May 27, 2005 file photo. More than 1 billion gallons of water _ enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools _ is backed up in abandoned mine shafts and a drainage tunnel in the mountains above Leadville, and officials worry it could blow out and cascade through the historic town when the heavy snowpack melts. More than 1 billion gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools — is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the historic town of Leadville and threatening to blow.


Shooting stuns university community

Ryan Wells, left, and his wife Jacqueline, second from left, a graduate student at Northern Illinois University, NIU employee Jessica Best, second from right, and student Suzanne Mauher for a prayer vigil at Wellspring Chapel for the victims of the NIU shooting in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)Word of the ambush attack inside a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday sent panic throughout the sprawling campus.


Multicultural U.K. vulnerable to terror?

A front view of the bus which was destroyed by a bomb in London on Thursday, is seen Friday July 8 2005. Commuters in London reluctantly descended into the Underground on Friday morning, attempting to return to routine in the aftermath of four rush-hour blasts that killed at least 50 people Thursday. Police said the attacks had the signatures of the al-Qaida terror network. A leading defense think-tank said on Friday that multicultural Britain is an easy target for attacks by militant Islamists because its aims, values and political identity are divided.


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