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Game over. With the shot, Nixon scored the Terriers first goal of the game, but, more importantly, she cracked the Crimson's defensive dam and opened her team's offensive floodgates...
...various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...India's Medha Patkar is a passionate critic of big dam projects, especially the one scheduled for the Narmada Valley, which will submerge 245 villages and uproot 100,000 people. Taking a leaf from Mahatma Gandhi's book, she has organized hunger strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, roadblocks and rallies. A measure of her success: the World Bank has ordered an independent review of the environmental impact of the Narmada dam and plans for resettling villagers, prompting foreign investors to delay releasing fresh funds...
Just days before Aramony resigned, the United Way's executive committee gave him a unanimous vote of confidence. But when philanthropist Walter Annenberg, who donated more than $400,000 to United Way chapters last year, urged him to step down, a psychological dam broke. Aramony submitted his resignation Wednesday night, telling the executive committee in a letter that he was leaving "for the greater good of the organization...
According to Shiva, a dam is being built on the Ganges River in India at the expense of the people of the area. As a result, Shiva said, hundreds are now displaced from their homes...