Word: dammed
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...Miyagi prefecture broke a taboo in December 2000 when he allowed public access to police records as a means to make government more transparent. Governor Masayasu Kitagawa of Mie prefecture unilaterally canceled a major nuclear power plant, a project as dear to Tokyo's planners as Nagano's dams. And in Tokushima, Governor Tadashi Ota won re-election in April 2002 by promising to stop construction of a giant sluice dam on the Yoshino River. In a recent referendum, 90% of Tokushima city voters opposed the dam. Nor is the trouble found only in outlying prefectures. Governor Akiko Domoto...
CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of the February kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam; in San Diego. He faces a death sentence or life in prison without parole...
...results were predictably disastrous. The surrounding countryside lost its ability to absorb water from the Yangtze as it flowed from the Tibetan plateau to Shanghai, passing 400 million people along the way. The government tried building dikes and sluices; its ultimate solution, the Three Gorges Dam, is now under construction upriver in Sichuan province. Yet even that grand ambition?turning the upper Yangtze into the world's biggest reservoir?probably won't stop downstream flooding in Hunan, which has four major rivers of its own that often overflow their banks...
...wetlands that can absorb the water that surges down the Yangtze and other rivers. Already 1.8 million people have moved, with another million expected to pack up over the coming year. That's roughly twice the number the government is forcibly relocating to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A trip along the lake's southwest corner in recent days showed huge inundated areas where villages had been moved uphill, allowing the government to flood the region without risking life or property. (In addition, dikes have been strengthened and logging banned on the Yangtze's upper reaches: deforestation...
...CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of kidnapping and murdering seven-year-old Danielle Van Dam; in San Diego. Prosecutors have vowed to seek the death penalty against the former engineer, a neighbor of the girl's family. He is believed to have abducted the girl from her bedroom in early February...