Word: dammed
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...make out is the banal. But it's there too--in the meetings the priests convene to schedule their planting dates and combat the problem of crop pests; in the plans they draw up to maintain aqueducts and police conduits; in the irrigation proposals they consider and approve, the dam proposals they reject or amend. "The religion has a temple at every node in the irrigation system," says David Sloan Wilson, professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. "The priests make decisions and enforce the code of both religion and irrigation...
...HYDROPOWER: Current percentage: 7.7% Percentage in 2010: 24-29% MAJOR PROJECTS: The controversially gargantuan Three Gorges Dam will be the biggest power plant in the world when it is completed in 2009. China is also building another major hydroelectric project, the Longtan hydropower station on the Pearl River, which is slated for 2009 completion...
...Upon returning to Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region, Mesud rallied tribesmen and former Taliban fighters to hit back at the U.S. and its ally, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, as Mesud later told the press, he ordered his men to kidnap two Chinese engineers working on a dam site near the Afghan border. China and Pakistan have close diplomatic and economic ties, and the engineers' capture caused embarrassment in Islamabad and anguish in Beijing. In exchange for his hostages' freedom, Mesud demanded the release of dozens of Islamic militants arrested in a seven-month Pakistani army sweep along...
More Wal-Mart than Tinseltown, Sinclair (headquartered on Beaver Dam Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland) hardly provides the conservative answer to Hollywood. It is however, a solidly Republican media conglomerate: its executives have given generously to GOP candidates, and one of its vice presidents doubles as a conservative on-air commentator. Its airing of Stolen Honor, produced by the former Washington Times reporter Carlton Sherwood, may be subject to federal regulations requiring networks to provide candidates with equal time...
...explosion and a mushroom-shaped cloud over a remote area in the northern part of the country. Pyongyang denied it had exploded a nuke and even escorted a group of foreign ambassadors to the area, where they saw thousands of workers toiling mostly by hand to build a dam. A local official said the blasts were part of an effort to speed up the project. An ambassador who visited the site said the explanation made sense: "You don't make that much progress without some pretty big bangs. This was not just some stage show just for us." But what...