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...converted it into a barge channel that no longer deposited sediment into coastal marshes; this NASA satellite image shows that sediment cascading into the Gulf of Mexico during the Mississippi floods this spring. "You can see on that map how we missed our chance this year," says Paul Harrison, an Environmental Defense attorney. The huge brown plumes around the Atchafalaya, the Head of Passes and Bonnet Carre are where sediment isn't needed; the too-small-to-see diversions at Davis Pond and Caernarvon - and a planned diversion at Myrtle Grove - are where sediment is needed...
...Taylor, Doug Harrison and Stephen Kraus Amacom; 245 pages...
...hard to see how McCain's multiple mansions or $500 shoes detract from his economic plans, and just about impossible to see how Obama's decision to vacation near his grandmother in Hawaii undercuts his claim to economic leadership. But ever since the wealthy Whig William Henry Harrison's brilliant "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, candidates have tried to strike an Everyman pose, and missteps that have made them look "out of touch" - like George H.W. Bush checking his watch during an economic debate, or John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, or even Bill Clinton of Hope, Ark., getting...
...couple of decades now, the stars of big movies have been trending younger, until it seemed that the next generation of the Hollywood élite would emerge not from high schools but from the womb. This summer, though, has brought good news for geriatric actors--those over 30. Harrison Ford, who at 66 is, in movie years, practically a sequoia, looked at least as vigorous as the Indiana Jones film he headlined. Comic-book epics also have middle-aged men in lead roles: Robert Downey Jr., 43, in Iron Man and 58-year-old Ron Perlman in Hellboy...
...Harrison rummages heroically through the detritus of Gilley family life, which is certainly authentically depressing: poverty, alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse. But the deep, human reality of Billy's act eludes her--he is a dull, nasty subject, with none of the thwarted, Romantic brilliance with which Capote endows his subjects. Or maybe the problem is that she grasps Billy's truth too well, and that While They Slept suffers from an excess of honesty. That's something Capote certainly avoided in In Cold Blood. When it comes to true crime, too much truth can be fatal...