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...done? Predictably, the two sides in the debate mostly talk past each other, with environmentalists stressing the dangers and water providers focusing on costs and the inflexibility of the laws. For example, the EPA requires testing for dioxin, a possible human carcinogen, but, argues Wayne Kern of the North Dakota department of health, "the industries that are common sources of dioxin just do not exist in North Dakota...
Something clearly has to give, and several ideas have already surfaced. One is that Congress could finally start offering financial assistance to the small water companies that need it most. Another is to encourage small systems to merge and share costs, an approach that has made headway in South Dakota. The role of the EPA will be crucial. Administrator Carol Browner says she is willing to reconsider the water law's simplistic "one size fits all" approach; she is looking at a strategy that would allow local governments to deal with local problems in their own way without sacrificing national...
...Deadwood casino scheme looks dead after South Dakota vote...
...dinosaur burial ground, now a dry, undulating pasture of sage and buffalo grass just below the North Dakota border, was once a subtropical floodplain, where dinosaurs roamed amid palm trees and ferns on the edge of a dying inland sea. One day a mature male T. rex, weighing up to five tons and measuring nearly 40 feet in length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away...
After his discovery, Sacrison called Peter Larson, the president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, in Hill City, South Dakota. Larson is a controversial figure in the world of paleontology: last year, after he announced that he was excavating the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, the U.S. Attorney impounded the skeleton, contending that it had been illegally removed from government-owned land. Larson disagrees, and the institute is suing. But there is no dispute over Sacrison's latest find, which Larson named Duffy, in honor of his lawyer. After getting the landowner's permission, Sacrison...