Metro’s inspector general said problems with track work and concrete structures on the troubled Silver Line rail project could create significant cost and operational issues and is urging the transit agency not to accept control of the line until the issues are resolved.
In management alerts issued Friday, Metro Inspector General Geoffrey A. Cherrington said a sealant being applied to prevent water from seeping into hundreds of defective concrete panels may not be working. Read More...
Introduction In 1836, the eminent naturalist Louis Agassiz first described a fossil fish he called Coelacanthus (Greek for "hollow spine"). Since then, fossils of some 125 species of coelacanth have turned up, dating from about 400 to 66 million years ago. After that, they vanish from the fossil record and so were thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago. Then, in 1938, a living coelacanth was caught off South Africa (see Moment of Discovery). Read More...
Sidney Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was born on August 7, 1987 in Cole Harbour, Canada. He was drafted first overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2005 and has since gone on to become one of the most successful players in the NHL. He has won the NHL MVP Award twice, in 2007 and 2014, and has led the Penguins to three Stanley Cup Championships in 2009, 2016 and 2017, winning the Conn Smythe trophy in both 2016 and 2017. Read More...
