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...Human attempts to remold the land for agriculture on a grand scale have also failed. In 1989 I flew over the catchment area for the Samuel Dam, a hydroelectric project just outside Porto Velho in Rond?nia. The land there is so flat that the newly built dam flooded 46,500 hectares of forest, leaving behind a wilderness of dead trees sticking out of shallow water and a vast breeding ground for mosquitoes. The dead trees and mosquitoes were still there when I flew over the area again. But now the talk in Porto Velho is that the dam is silting...
...unloads at the "catchment center," where the truants will fill out forms and be instructed to return to school (most do, since each one's principal is telephoned). As the kids wait to be processed, a squad of ROTC students in crisp blue uniforms marches by in formation. One truant stares, wide-eyed. "What's that?" She cringes. "That's what they're going to do to you," someone tells her. "No way!" she cries. She's right...
...point about discovery is not that someone floats ashore somewhere, by accident, leaving no traces. The American continental coast from Tierra del Fuego to the Aleutians in the west and Baffin Bay on the east coast is such a vast catchment area for the globe's wind and water currents that it is inconceivable that non-native people should not have fetched up there before Columbus. But the essence of discovery is that the voyage is repeatable. It entails documentation -- logs and records. The discoverer is the person who gets from known A to unknown B, returns...
...have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from the whims of the weather. "Irrigation" generally means hauling water in an old oil can from nearby creeks...
...Massachusetts Mental Health and Retardation Act officially reoriented state mental health care away from merely custodial, institutional care toward extensive, community-based systems. The Act divided the state into thirty-nine mental health and retardation districts, called catchment areas, each one run by an Area Board composed of concerned citizens and professional mental health workers. This official reorganization of state mental health services has spurred a great acceleration in the development of community programs in the past six years. Two catchment areas in the Boston region have been at the forefront of the community mental health movement in Massachusetts...