Word: dam
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...famously bellwether Macomb County, Mich. Owner Tom Moragianis voted for President Bush but now is concerned that a prolonged engagement in Iraq could be a mortal blow to an already ailing economy. Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable. "The terrorists are still here," says World War II veteran Thomas Murphy. "I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security." Or at V.F.W. Post 5255 in Lawrenceville, Ga., where Irvin Dougherty reflects on what...
...fear is that Saddam could easily hide in a country that was all but built for his personal protection. Or he could slip through Iraq's porous borders with Syria, Iran or Jordan. Sad-dam has billions stashed away to finance a life in exile. To avoid this, the White House appears to be counting on the newly liberated Iraqis to turn him in. Sources tell TIME that the U.S. armed forces have developed pamphlets to be dropped over Iraq if a war begins, warning citizens not to let Saddam escape. "We're counting on the Ceausescu method," says...
...drowns the film in nostalgia during its unfortunate coda, turning the movie into a Chinese version of The Big Chill. Luo and Ma, two decades older, watch a video Ma has shot of the village that was their prison, now fated to be flooded because of the Three Gorges Dam. The video focuses on the little Chinese seamstress's room, long empty, long fled. Their tears fall quick, tears for that small gift of time when joy and pain were so closely bound that neither could be felt without the other. Which is, of course, the very definition of youth...
HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power--2 billion watts or more--as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours. Capacitors aboard the missile discharge an energy pulse--moving at the speed of light and impervious to bad weather--in front of the missile as it nears its target. That pulse can destroy any electronics within 1,000 ft. of the flash by short-circuiting internal electrical connections, thereby wrecking memory chips, ruining computer motherboards and generally screwing up electronic components not built to withstand such powerful surges. It's similar to what can happen to your...
...Better get your last licks in soon, however. The beluga sturgeon that produce the world's best caviar are under enormous pressure from overfishing, dam building and pollution by the former Soviet republics that ring the Caspian Sea. Most species of sturgeon are in decline?some by as much as 90%?and those native to the Caspian appear doomed. Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put beluga on the endangered-species list?a move that would cut off supply to the world's largest market of consumers. (Americans swallow up to 80% of the annual...