Republic Services has scaled down its proposal to expand Coffin Butte Landfill as it attempts for a second time to win approval from the Benton County Planning Commission. The commission in 2021 unanimously denied the Phoenix-based company’s application for a conditional use permit to expand. The 178-acre landfill, north of Corvallis, takes more than half […]
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Huge Saudi construction projects ‘might get scaled down’
“They can keep saying that, and we can keep proving them wrong.” That was the response of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a TV documentary broadcast in July 2023, while talking about scepticism surrounding Saudi Arabia’s flagship construction projects. Almost a year later, some of the doubts are turning out to be […]
Huge Saudi construction projects ‘might get scaled down’
“They can keep saying that, and we can keep proving them wrong.” That was the response of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a TV documentary broadcast in July 2023, while talking about scepticism surrounding Saudi Arabia’s flagship construction projects. Almost a year later, some of the doubts are turning out to be […]
Students in India caught grabbing exam ‘cheat sheets’ from those who scaled school’s walls
In a shocking video, students at Chandravati School in Haryana, India, were seen grabbing exam “cheat sheets” reportedly from friends and family outside a school prior to a test being given to the students on March 6. (SEE the video at the top of this article.) The footage shows individuals climbing the high exterior walls […]
Israel is testing out flooding the Hamas tunnels. Here’s what it could look like scaled up
Seven weeks into Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, one of the key challenges facing the Israeli military is the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels that it says spans the entirety of the Strip. In an effort to destroy the underground network, Israel has begun flooding some of Gaza’s tunnels with seawater, a US official told CNN […]