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...happens, scientists have stumbled on several ways to do just that. When the lake behind the Hoover Dam was first filled, it triggered quakes in a region that had been seismically inactive. Nuclear-weapons designers found that they were also generating quakes at the Nevada Test Site when they detonated underground blasts. But the real breakthrough came when the U.S. Army began pumping liquid wastes into the ground near Denver at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal and discovered that the pumping was setting off tiny artificial quakes. Scientists studying the phenomenon found that the fluids were lubricating the fault boundaries, allowing...
Releasing crude from the SPR--the oil is stored in underground caves in Texas and Louisiana--could be a dam breaker. Says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Resources, a leading consultant: "Any effort to tap the strategic reserve now will add to pressure on oil producers to put more crude on the market, which will start to bring prices down." The last time the government announced it was unloading oil from the SPR, in April 1996, petroleum-futures prices plummeted nearly 8% almost immediately and the cost of gasoline soon dropped 10[cents...
These days he is leading a fight to dismantle some of the nation's hydroelectric dams, once essential for people, now destructive of spawning salmon. Chouinard was instrumental in the taking down of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine. Today, at the other end of the Snake, in the State of Washington, the government, egged on by Chouinard, is looking for ways to put such dams as the Little Goose out of service...
...then there is Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, a beautiful album of light folk-pop--which could be a euphemism for "slow death." Davis divined a vast pool of potential buyers awakened by the Lilith Fair Tour, so Arista flogged the album at MTV and radio for months until the dam finally broke. At 7 million sold, Surfacing has become a Jewel-and Alanis-style blockbuster. No wonder the stymied Artist most of us still know as Prince beat a path to his door. His new Arista album debuts next month...
...expansion of economic and individual freedom. We could sense both its promise and its limitations wherever we went: at a discussion with religious leaders in a mosque in Kashgar, at meetings with engineers and then environmental activists as we sailed the Yangtze and toured the mind-boggling Three Gorges Dam construction site, at a FORTUNE Global Forum of international CEOs in Shanghai's new convention center and at events surrounding the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Chinese revolution in Beijing...