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...would it have mattered if the Corps had got all the money it asked for? Lieut. General Carl Strock, commander of the Corps, insists it would not have. The system might have been able to drain the floodwaters more quickly, but the big breach occurred in a levee that had recently been strengthened. "We were just caught by a storm of an intensity that exceeded the design of the project we have in place," Strock says. In other words, the levees worked just fine; it was the storm that screwed things up by being so powerful...
...history of Western development has shown one thing, it's that this kind of water shopping can go terribly awry. In the early part of the 20th century, Los Angeles famously--and secretly--bought up thousands of acres in California's Owens Valley, then proceeded to drain away the surface and subsurface water. After decades of pumping, a dozen Owens Valley springs have dried up, and water tables in places are too low to support once abundant native grasses and shrubs. In the West that has become a cautionary tale. "We don't want to be another Owens Valley," says...
...spring 1991 that nearby Bergstrom Air Force Base was on the base-closings list. The 12th Air Force headquarters and two air wings at the 52-year-old facility would take almost 5,000 military and civilian jobs with them once they moved out, and that was projected to drain $339 million annually from the local economy...
...doesn't quite take a place among the classics. Hong Kong action movies once blossomed because talented directors like Tsui were paired with charismatic actors like Chow Yun-fat, who could elevate a genre picture with his mere presence. Sadly, the Hong Kong film industry has suffered a power drain in recent years, as no new performers have proved capable of filling the shoes of fleeing stars like Chow. Yen can knock out 100 bad guys without breaking into a sweat, but as the romantic lead in Swords, he makes the stolid Jet Li look like Cary Grant. The actresses...
...taken to the Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota for treatment of a suspected infection last fall. Because the staff on duty that night forgot to attach a catheter to Owen, doctors ended up having to take emergency action several hours later, first using a needle to drain his dangerously full bladder and then, after his bowel was punctured during the procedure--a known risk--surgically repairing the damage...