Word: creeks
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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...
...always exciting for a biologist to find an animal species for the first time, but the 1974 discovery made by Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide was even more fascinating than usual. Searching a boulder-strewn, fast-flowing creek in an Australian rain forest, Tyler spotted a frog unlike any he'd ever encountered. While its appearance--brown back and cream-colored underside--was nothing special, its reproductive behavior proved to be downright bizarre. The female swallowed her own eggs, incubated them in her stomach and gave birth through her mouth. A single mother coughed up 21 offspring...
...Skulls, a recently released teeny-bopper thriller starring "Dawson's Creek" heart-throb Joshua Jackson, is supposedly based on the real Ivy League experiences of both the movie's director, Rob Cohen, and writer-producer, John Pogue. The movie delves into the world of elite "secret societies" at a generic Ivy League institution called Y University (although the shots of the unmistakably dingy streets of New Haven make the connection relatively simple, not to mention the school's blue and white colors and bulldog mascot...
...thing the brands can't offer, though, is growth. Most will be hard pressed to increase sales more than 5%. Sales at Gillette, considered an innovator, actually fell 2% last year, and the company is considering unloading its underperforming stationery and Braun household-appliance divisions. In Battle Creek, Mich., Tony the Tiger isn't feeling too great. In the face of lower-priced store brands, more nimble competitors and a decline in demand, Kellogg's core cereal business has got pretty soggy. Coke, which created more shareholder value in the past decade than most other companies, has so far spent...
...Dawson's Creek...