 it out to sea, they neglected to place the end of the pipe above the tide line, so every time the tide came in, the pipe's flow reversed itself.  The few <a href="http://www.seattle.com/crappers/">toilets</a> in the region would become fountains of a particularly evil kind.
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<h2>Fire as Urban Renewal</h2>
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When the financial district <a href="http://www.seattle.com/fire/">burned to the ground</a>, the city fathers looked on it more as an opportunity than a disaster.  Here was an opportunity to do t