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...largesse, in fact, went well beyond Florida. In Fort Worth, Texas, he backed the sale of as many as 150 F-16 fighters to Taiwan despite a longstanding policy against such sales -- and despite a predictable explosion from Beijing, a regime Bush has taken considerable pains to cultivate. In Humbolt, South Dakota, and Shallowater, Texas, the President announced the release of $755 million in crop disaster relief, as well as $1 billion in export subsidies for U.S. wheat farmers...
...delay gave everybody time to think. Arcata still needed an alternative disposal system that would "enhance" Humbolt Bay. Its sludge-skimming plant piped the city's wastewater into an oxidation pond (where most microbes are rendered harmless by sunlight), but the runoff no longer met legal standards. Locals knew vaguely that wastewater had some environmental pluses. Humboldt Bay oysters fed on its nutrients, and Professor Allen, a likable tinkerer whom Klippity Klopp calls Crazy George, raised salmon fingerlings in a mix of sea and wastewater. Other ideas emerged. HSU biologist Stan Harris was for a bird sanctuary. Gearheart came...
Harvard's J.V. boat also won its event, thrashing Northeastern, Orange Coast College, California, Washington and Navy. The third Crimson boat placed third in its race, behind Orange Coast and Humbolt State...
...artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
Paget brought General Humbolt up from Beirut to show him what the French Army had done to Damascus. After touring the streets in a British staff car, Humbolt sacked Roget. The Arabs had neither forgotten nor forgiven the shelling of Damascus by the French in 1925. Now they recalled that the French Government removed General Maurice Sarrail for that atrocity-and that the city was shelled again the following year...