• An entrepreneur says he is planning another on a huge boat in the river.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq's southern oil hub

  • Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.

    WSJ: New York Stadium Deals: Good and Bad

  • Frankfurters, in particular, are proud of the huge chemical complex straddling the river Main at Hoechst, west of the city.

    ECONOMIST: BASF and the chemical industry

  • On the vast expanse of the river itself, a huge freight barge from Germany glides slowly past the city's medieval cathedral, towards the more modern structures of the chemical industries.

    BBC: Rhine on path to recovery

  • This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.

    ECONOMIST: Water in the West (2)

  • Huge surges in voter registration in river towns like Evansville and cities like Gary may also give him a boost, and volunteers from upstate college areas like Bloomington -- where voter registration is way up -- have fanned out across the state.

    CNN: Wild cards could determine deadlocked Indiana

  • His other choices are Holding Back The Years, Fairground - "because of that huge wheel they have further down the river" - and Words For Girlfriends.

    BBC: Hucknall's race against time

  • The Columbia River is punctuated by 14 huge dams that still generate electricity for the millions who live along its watershed, and as the region shifts to other sources of renewable energy, it's giving birth to new giants awe-inspiring structures that will stare down at us for centuries.

    NPR: Power Structures Shape Northwest Landscape

  • The huge, voracious fish have infested the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

    WSJ: Great Lakes governors seek agreement on invasives

  • Engineers will have a huge job recovering pieces of the span from the Mississippi River and reconstructing what happen that caused this collapse.

    NPR: Collapsed Minneapolis Bridge Was Under Repair

  • This story, with its cast of dams, river diversions, aquifer depletion and lake drainage, makes water a huge matter of concern.

    ECONOMIST: Water

  • Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.

    BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war

  • The National Capital Commission's (NCC) Guy Laflamme, one of the festival's organizers, said the opening will be "bigger than ever" featuring "a huge cascade of pyrotechnical effects" pouring from the Alexandra Bridge into the icy river.

    BBC: Embracing winter in Ottawa

  • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'

  • At the newly christened Rocky Rapids we took a stop-start, bumpy slide down a tiny rocky waterfall, while at the section of the river called Lake Balboa Ledge, we had to get out and walk among huge boulders.

    BBC: Paddling Los Angeles�� rebounding river

  • It takes a huge effort, backed by a lot of money, to change the course of the mighty river that is the federal government.

    FORBES: There's Much Too Little Money In Politics

  • When The River was first announced in June, a Royal Court spokesperson said they expected a "huge demand" for seats.

    BBC: Miranda Raison and Dominic West in The River

  • Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green flood plain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.

    BBC: Australia��s Top End

  • According to a Navy Environmental Impact Statement, the reactors will be put on barges, floated up the Columbia River to the site of the former Hanford nuclear production complex where they will be buried in a huge trench near reactors from smaller decommissioned naval warships.

    CNN: USS Enterprise sailing off to history's scrap heap

  • This huge cultural heritage site, became increasingly threatened with decay by exposure to harsh climatic conditions, floods from the Indus River, deterioration due to salts rising from the high water-table, and water-logging.

    UNESCO: Safeguarding Moenjodaro

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