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...planted from airplanes. Or coming across an old man scrubbing syringes and needles in a basin for reuse in the local hospital. Or watching fireworks soaring over the beautiful gorges of the Yangtze on Chinese New Year and realizing the town will soon be submerged by the biggest dam in the world...
...central fact of Fuling is that along with many other towns on the banks of the Yangtze, it is going to be submerged over the next decade as the water rises behind the Three Gorges Dam. Red lines have been painted on buildings to show how high the water will go. Hessler is mystified at first by the lack of concern in Fuling about the huge project. It will displace at least 2 million people, could cause substantial environmental damage and, should it fail, leave casualties in the millions (3,200 dams have burst in China in the past half...
...difficult for economic policy to deal with the abruptness of a break in confidence. In earlier testimony, I likened this process to water backing up against a dam that is finally breached. The torrent carries with it most remnants of certainty and euphoria that built up in earlier periods...
...have in Washington? Some say he may be to Bush what supply-sider Arthur Laffer was to Reagan. One key meeting to watch is the weekly get-together between Greenspan and Treasury chief Paul O'Neill. If Taylor starts showing up more regularly than, say, Deputy Secretary nominee Kenneth Dam, it may be a sign that the Administration is sending Greenspan a message. Or just a hint of Taylor's own ambitions. "There's no question," said one ex-Clinton official last week, "that this guy is talked about as a future Fed Chairman himself...
...Israel and the Palestinians, and it's also a key element of Israel's reluctance to surrender all of the Golan Heights in order to get a peace agreement with Syria. Syria has come close to hostilities with Turkey, too, over the latter country's plan to build a dam that may restrict Syria's water supply. And similar conflicts are likely to expand...