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Pigs in Heaven picks up five years later. Taylor and the baby, whom she has adopted and named Turtle, are admiring the WPA sculpture at Hoover Dam, when the child spots a man tumbling into a spillway. In keeping with Kingsolver's fictional line of determined women, the tot convinces the authorities that she did not imagine the incident. A search turns up a man with only an ankle injury. Turtle becomes a hero and a participant on an Oprah Winfrey show about kids who save people's lives. She is seen by millions, including Annawake Fourkiller, an Oklahoma lawyer...
...epic bouts of indecision. What struck White House officials most about Kerrey's resistance was what a senior Administration official described as the "inchoate" nature of his demands. Kerrey wasn't asking for anything specific. He didn't want a post office in Omaha or a dam on the Platte River. Instead he was advocating a more aggressive effort on Clinton's part in selling the country on a disciplined fiscal life-style, one involving less consumption and more investment. Kerrey urged that Clinton -- who had defeated him in the presidential primaries -- display more "spirit," more "energy" in preaching reform...
...help others, like a child being ignored, at peril to his life, in an emergency room. He still has the recklessness that comes to people who have nothing left to lose (the most spectacular of his hair-breadth escapes is a dive into the torrent coursing over a dam hundreds of feet high). And he still has his own pursuit to pursue -- of the one-armed man whom he alone knows is his wife's actual murderer...
...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...