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Ultimately, the most dramatic policy shift could be the changing view of dams, long the symbol of man's dominion over nature. They are now seen by some as a testament to man's hubris -- redirecting rivers, flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many...
...write 250 pages during the installation period of "Aperto." "So today I've still got to press on to page 250. I just feel so corny here writing like an idiot. Anyway it's hard to get my head out of the bummer this place is giving me. Dam it I can't write. I'm too bummed out." Ah, the anguish of creation! The visitor knows what he means...
...time hydrologists figured this out, it was almost too late. A huge earthen dam had been thrown up along the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee and a great swath of the northern Everglades transformed into prized farmland -- source of most of the U.S.'s cane sugar and 10% of its winter vegetables. To speed development and protect those farmlands from flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been...
...want Me to pull the heavens back and show you My anger?! . . . Fear Me, for I have you in My snare . . . I forewarn you, the Lake Waco area of Old Mount Carmel will be terribly shaken. The waters of the lake will be emptied through the broken dam...
...FOUR AMERICAN FIGHTER JETS WERE ON A ROUtine monitoring flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on -- a clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...