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...that. We fill our lives with objects. Some of the objects were people once, like my wife and child. In the streets you know that there is something like a river, and that all along you have been trying to fight your way upstream. In the streets, you flow downstream, and are aware of the energy that moves you. But that doesn't mean that it's easy...
...even more specific on what happened after he surfaced and caught his breath some 30 feet downstream from the car. According to his account, he dived down to the car seven or eight times during a 15-to 20-minute period, trying to reach Mary Jo, then spent another 15 or 20 minutes resting on the bank before starting down the road to the cottage...
...perennial downstream journey of smoke scum, chemical pollutants and broken gin bottles becomes visible once again to the University public, conservationists and local officials are turning more of their attention to environmental conditions along the length of the Charles...
...also stopped the flow of silt down the Nile, which in the past offset the natural erosion of the land from the Nile delta. As a result, downstream erosion may wash away as much productive farm land as is opened up by new irrigation systems around Lake Nasser. Without the nutrient-rich silt reaching the Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have...
...convinced that a chemical plant can control its effluents, or that any state agency or state laws can make it do so." One example that supports Taylor's claim is a small Tenneco chemical plant operating near Beaufort. A marine biologist recently sampled a downstream creek and found that the water was extremely acidic...