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From California to Maine, dam removal has begun. When four small diversion dams were taken off a Sierra Nevada stream called Butte Creek, record numbers of spring-run Chinook salmon--listed by the U.S. as a threatened species--rushed past their ruins to spawn. If the spring-run Chinook ends up on the more serious endangered-species list, that will trigger more restrictions on diversions from its spawning rivers. So helping the spring-run by getting rid of a few dams could be worth billions to California's economy, which is hopelessly dependent on the manipulation of water...
Fearing a consumer backlash, New Zealand King Salmon, a major producer of Chinook salmon--the largest Pacific salmon--announced last week that it was suspending its gene-modification experiments. Entis, by contrast, believes he can win acceptance of his supersalmon through public education. "We have to show we have nothing to hide," he says...
...LION are convinced that they will be the first Americans into Bosnia to police the peace. For weeks the advance unit's 1,000 soldiers have prepared at the vast Hohenfels training center in northern Bavaria. They have parachuted out of Air Force transports, clattered to landing zones aboard Chinook helicopters and roared over the countryside in Bradley fighting vehicles. Their exercises, code-named Mountain Shield, were tightly coordinated with the U.S. 1st Armored Division and 3rd Infantry Division, which subsequently conducted operation Mountain Eagle 95 with 10,000 troops earmarked for Bosnian peacekeeping duty...
Seasons of the year are marked by the return of the chinook and other natural signs...
DIED. MARION TINSLEY, 68, math professor, world checkers champion and the first flesh-and-blood player to beat Chinook, a checkers-playing computer whose memory contains billions of positions; of cancer complications; in Humble, Texas...