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Many perfectly legitimate problems have delayed construction of the mighty Dickey-Lincoln dam, a $690.3 million hydroelectric project on the St. John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location...
...possibility to invest $17,000 and two summers scouting a 300-mile stretch of the St. John River to see if the fearsome Furbish could be found elsewhere. Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site. What is more, they claim, the exotic flower can be cultivated elsewhere. Although the Dickey-Lincoln project, first authorized by Congress in 1965, still has other hurdles to clear before construction begins, the lousewort no longer appears to be an obstacle in its path...
...department is a curious kind of hybrid." Among other things, it inherits the entire Federal Energy Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration and some 50 functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably an Energy Information Administration, which will develop reliable statistics about...
...already well over the target of $25 million. Before the movie is finished. Superman will have 1) soldered together the Golden Gate Bridge, which has been cut in half by an earthquake, 2) rescued the President's airplane from a thunderstorm, 3) tamed the waters from a collapsing dam, 4) plucked a speedboat full of criminals from the East River and set it down, still dripping, on Wall Street, 5) caught a crashing helicopter in midair, 6) flown round the world in 90 seconds with Lois Lane in his arms, and 7) cooked a soufflé for Lois with...
Eventually, however, he and a friend began playing in weekend sandlot games in Macombs Dam Park, adjacent to Yankee Stadium. The hitting touch developed in Panama had not deserted him. After a few weeks he caught the eye of a teammate's father who was a "bird dog"-an unofficial unpaid scout -for the Minnesota Twins. A phone call brought a scout; the scout made another call, which, in turn, fetched the Twins' farm director. Finally, when Minnesota came to town for a series with the Yankees, young Carew was brought inside the stadium...