Urbanisme
Washington (AFP) - Security agents and sanitary personnel on Wednesday cleared out a longstanding encampment of homeless people in a leafy Washington plaza just steps from the White House. As downtown office workers looked on, the agents pulled down makeshift tents and dumped homeless campers' personal belongings into garbage trucks at McPherson Square. "The (National) Park Police showed up at about six o'clockish or so," Daniel Kingery, a 61-year-old man living in the park, told AFP. Dozens of tents had filled the makeshift camp in a plaza two blocks from both the White House and the US Treas...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Unprecedented restrictions on water usage went into effect Wednesday in the Los Angeles area, which like most of California is in the grip of severe drought for the third consecutive year. More than six million customers are affected by the new measures, which limit watering gardens to one day a week and only during the coolest hours, under penalty of a fine and reduced water flow. The goal is to reduce consumption by 35 percent in the area served by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of southern California, which encompasses 19 million residents, or nearly half of the U...
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New York (AFP) - Marking the end of an era, New York City on Monday removed the last of its storied payphone booths, which have fallen victim to the ubiquity of free Wi-fi and cell phones in recent years. But Superman fans can take comfort in the fact that Manhattan will keep four of the defunct booths, made famous as the impromptu changing rooms for journalist Clark Kent as he transformed into the Man of Steel. Over the decades, the phone booths have featured widely in pop culture, from comic books to Hollywood blockbusters and TV shows. That ended Monday morning, when, in front of assemble...
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