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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/guide-to-latex/exercises/chap3/exer3-2.tex b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/guide-to-latex/exercises/chap3/exer3-2.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 4aa38dc98e0..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/guide-to-latex/exercises/chap3/exer3-2.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -\documentclass[twocolumn]{article} -\begin{document} -CAN VENICE BE SAVED? - -Water and Venice have always a complicated relationship. -The world's most famously wet city is also one of its most -famously endangered ones, forever being flooded by its -signature canals. Even since the 14th century, Italian -engineers have dreamed of ways to control the water. Now -a solution may be at hand: the Moses project, a vast series -of sea gates that may finally the sodden city dry. - -The need for Venetian water control has never been greater. -Especially high tides have caused major floods 10 times in -the past 67 years alone, most diastrously in 1966 when the -water in parts of the city climbed to more than 1.83 m. -Compression of sediment under the city, along with rising sea -levels, often causes smaller floods, shutting down businesses -and making sidewalks and squares impossible. - -The source of the problem is geography. Venice is primarily a -small cluster of interlocked islands set in the northern end of -a 536-sq.-km lagoon. A long ridge of land seperates the lagoon -from the far larger Gulf of Venice except at three major inlets. -These openings allow high gulf tides to become high Venetian tides, -with the water sometimes climbing far enough to swamp the city's -seawalls. - -In 1984 a commission composed of Italy's 50 largest engeneering and -construction firms was formed to find a way to control the water -flow through the inlets, and Moses is it. Moses, an acronym for the -plan's technical name as well as a lyrical reference to the parting of -the Red Sea, calls for 78 hollow sea gates---each up to 5 m thick, 20 m -wide and 27.5 m long---to be hinged to foundations, or caissons, in the -seabed and to lie flat there. The gates would usually be filled with -water, but when tides rises to a height of 1 m or more, compressse air -would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float -upwards, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off -the inlets. Sea locks would permit permit ships to pass while the gates -are up. - -The project---which would take as long as ten years and cost at least -\$2.7 billion---could still run into obstacles, especially given the -fickle nature of Italian politics. Concerned that gates would be raised -so frequently and remain there so long that they would cause water in the -lagoon to grow stagnant, Greens are making that argument in an -environmental-impact review that could delay or even scuttle construction. -Even so, this is the closest Venice has come to a permanent solution to -its water problems in 700 years. By local bureaucratic standards, that's -not too bad. - -%---By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Jeff Israely/Rome---Time, June 2, 2003 -\end{document} |