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...southwest Pennsylvania, it is being paid for by the town along with state and federal agencies and will contain picnicking areas and hiking trails. But its central feature will be a stream of acidic water that will percolate out of the mine and course down a limestone-lined canal into aerating basins and finally to a wetland for a final rinse. Alongside the water's path, Bargmann is planting a "litmus garden"-- rows of cherry trees, blueberry bushes and other plants whose autumnal colors will reflect the water's purifying progress as it cools down from a scalding orange...
There were probably a lot of places Bill Bradley would rather have been today than standing on a platform in Green Bay, Wis., next to Al Gore. Like at the dentist getting a root canal. But there he was, rooting for the Democrats, talking up Wisconsin's Democratic senators and generally paying as little attention to Gore as was humanly possible. (It must have been a tough moment for Gore when he realized he scored fewer mentions than Russ Feingold in Bradley's speech...
...build seven new 1,200-ft. chambers--double the length of the current locks--at a cost of $1.2 billion. And with the 400,000 jobs its Mississippi dams and locks provide, with its $4 billion annual budget, with its history of helping build the Capitol and the Panama Canal, and with the 12,000 miles of channels it now controls across America, the corps, you would think, will get what the corps wants. Politicians have always made sure of that...
Nature loves the rhythm of a meandering river, with the summertime droughts and spring floods that nurture wildlife and push a waterway down a new path. Commercial barges, however, demand constancy, in the form of a canal filled with enough water to keep their 9-ft.-deep hulls from running aground. So after the great 1927 flood, the Army Corps of Engineers began shackling the unruly current. The corps built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching...
...year. Erin Brockovich's boffo box office (expected U.S. gross: $125 million) could help, particularly if Julia Roberts wins an Oscar for Best Actress. But studio chief Ron Meyer will doubtless be sent packing by Vivendi, which reportedly plans to replace him with Pierre Lescure, chairman and CEO of Canal Plus. Messier must also decide what to do with Seagram's 45% stake in Barry Diller's USA Network, which has cable channels and film- and TV-production facilities. Diller has feuded with Bronfman since the Seagram heir scotched Diller...