Word: baye
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...cause of grass loss is an increase of sediment, which blocks the light that plants need in order to carry on photosynthesis. Another problem is the bay's excess of nitrogen and phosphorus. These nutrients "fertilize" the bay and promote the proliferation of algae. When algae decompose, they rob the water of its life-giving oxygen, killing the grasses and the creatures that depend on them. There are areas of the bay-submarine deserts-where nothing at all can live...
Most of the phosphorus, biologists have found, comes from factories and municipal sewage-treatment plants. The nitrogen apparently enters the Chesapeake from farm fields and construction sites, which send fertilizers and soil into rivers and, ultimately, into the bay. Most of this nitrogen comes into the Chesapeake from the Susquehanna River. Flowing across Pennsylvania's rich farm country, the Susquehanna provides the bay with more than 40% of its fresh water and up to three-quarters of its nutrients...
...attempt to deal with pollutants threatening the bay, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, with federal help, are jointly trying to identify and battle the problems. The cleanup campaign will be costly. Though the President's visit raised hopes that he will sign legislation providing $40 million to improve the bay, the Federal Government has thus far set aside only a modest $10 million. Maryland, the state most affected by the bay's deterioration, has appropriated $36 million in state funds to finance antipollution efforts, but the other affected states have passed Chesapeake cleanup...
...important that everyone be willing to sacrifice, since the pressures on the bay can only increase. According to a study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the population of the bay area will rise by more than 3 million in the next 35 years. -By Peter Staler
...renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides to commit suicide. But an agonizing dilemma then arises: How should he love her-by letting her die, or by refusing to abet their separation...