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...Dam traveled from Amsterdam to represent the Nereus Rowing Club at the competition. His group took first place in the Men’s Club Eights after a third-place finish last year...
...Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs the North Korean free-trade zone of Sinuiju. Police questioned Yang about tax evasion as well as real estate and stock fraud. MEANWHILE In The Drink Albania's capital, Tirana, thought it had escaped Europe's summer floods. But a drunk dam worker changed that. Angry at being forbidden to drink on the job, the unnamed worker opened the floodgates. By the time the army stopped the flow, two days later, Tirana was under water...
Durango is oblivious to the lessons of history. It plans to build enough houses to expand its population 160%, to 40,000. This growth will require more water, and the city is banking on another dam, the controversial Animas-La Plata project, which has been on the drawing board since 1968. It is still unclear whether Congress will appropriate the entire $350 million needed for the dam. Water flows toward money. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s pushed small farmers off the land and consolidated larger land holdings. The drought of today will force farmers like Gillen to sell...
...prison dormitories, turning them into no-go areas. FRANCE Flash Floods At least 21 people died and eight people were missing after floods raged through villages and towns in the south of France. Five of the dead were from the village of Aramon, which was inundated when a dam gave way following torrential rain. The d é partement of the Gard, between the Mediterranean and the hills of the Massif Central, got the worst of the floods, with 19 dead and 3,000 people forced from their homes. Provence has suffered five such disasters since 1988. Jacques Thorette, a drainage...
...should underestimate the long memories and dogged persistence of the bureaucrats either. Public resistance to the Yoshino dam project in Tokushima forced the River Bureau to "table" it. The bureau did not officially cancel the project, keeping the option of pursuing it later. A bureau spokesman commented that a blank page should not be allowed to appear in his ministry's history dating back to the Meiji period?institutional memory going back more than a century...