Student Pugwash USA

The Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project is an 11-mile northerly extension of San Diego’s light rail transit (LRT) system. The project includes construction of numerous structures and doubletrack widening of shared portions with the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) commuter/freight/Amtrak rail corridor. Corridor widening civil improvements formed a physical “bottleneck” within a narrow channelized section of Rose Canyon (140 feet wide) located below the heavily traveled Interstate I-5 and State Route SR-52 interchange. Structures in this location include the relining of Rose Creek channel and various types of high retaining walls. Significant design and construction challenges presented themselves due to the geotechnical site condition. This case history addresses relevant considerations for the investigation, analyses, design, and construction of this key component of the project.

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This book is covered under the following topic: The pugwash symposium; Technological aspects; Strategic and political aspects; The European dimension; and Legal aspects and specific proposals.

PHILO ON JOSEPH The Basic Coherence of De Iosepho and De Somniis ii BY JOUETTE M. BASSLER Washington, D.C. Philo's writings seem filled with inconsistencies, none more per- sistently puzzling than the different presentations of the figure of Joseph in the tractates De Iosepho (jos.) and De Somniis ii (Somn. ii). In the former Joseph seems to be the model statesman, combining virtue, nobility, and piety with the practical skills demanded by his office. In the latter, however, the same patriarch appears as a near parody of this role, manifesting among other things vainglory, empty conceit, falsity, greed, debauchery, and