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What about even bigger, more significant dams? Well, no one has seriously suggested demolishing the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia, but a coalition of environmental groups has taken aim at four dams on the lower Snake River--and stirred up a storm of controversy. The damage those dams have done is clear. Since they were built in eastern Washington State from 1955 to 1975, the salmon population in the Snake has gone into free fall. But the benefits the dams provide are also clear: inexpensive barge transport for wheat farmers, irrigation water for fruit growers and a small...
...which typically goes for considerably less. Towns aren't cutting any sweetheart deals for doctors or lawyers or other professionals needed in a thriving community. "One guy told us he wanted to build a bed and breakfast, so we were trying to figure out how to give him a bigger lot," says Steve Piper, mayor of Marquette and owner of its only grocery store. "After all our work, he never followed up. Now we just treat everybody the same...
...Numbers 200 million Estimated number of people aged 15 to 64 worldwide who have used illegal drugs in the past 12 months; up 8% from the year before, according to a new United Nations report $322 billion Value of the global retail market for illegal drugs?bigger than the gross domestic product of 88% of the world's countries...
...tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like the University of North...
...football field, it rattles with microearthquakes--in this case, earthquakes of magnitude 2--with surprising regularity. Right next door, within a 2-mile radius, are more microquake clusters. In the coming years, Ellsworth anticipates, SAFOD will record fine-grained portraits of thousands of tiny temblors, many not much bigger than magnitude 0. By closely examining those portraits, scientists should be able to tell how closely one event resembles another and whether earthquakes, at least in principle, are predictable...