Word: dam
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Time and time again, the Environmental Protection Agency has been outflanked by White House officials more concerned with economic growth than environmental protection. So the EPA's decision last week to block construction of Colorado's Two Forks Dam was a victory not only for picnickers and sportsmen but also for the Administration's in-house conservationists...
With a roar of well-tuned exhaust, I took off for a test drive to Hell and $ back. (That's Hell, Mich., 30 miles distant, a tiny town consisting of little more than a creek, a grocery store and a bar called the Dam Site Inn.) Conditioned by years of driving subpar American subcompacts, I was genuinely surprised to find almost nothing at fault with the car. Spectacular it is not, but it is very good. And it comes loaded with the thoughtful amenities that have allowed the Japanese to outclass American automakers in the small-car market...
Finally, however, the dam seems to have burst. The immediate cause was the charge last month by Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson that several New England Patriots exposed their genitals and made lewd remarks while she was trying to conduct a postgame interview. Since then, reports of other incidents of locker-room harassment have come to light, causing some women sportswriters to wonder if their jobs are under widespread attack...
...water. Iraq's major rivers wash down from Turkey and Syria, two nations that are part of the alliance against Saddam Hussein. Turkey, which has already cut off key Iraqi oil pipelines, is in the better position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries...
...that the spotted owl has joined the dam-busting snail darter on the endangered-species list, President Bush wants to dilute the act that protects them. Some other denizens...