Word: journeyer
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...most ferocious enemy of the fish is eight hydroelectric dams on the lower Columbia and Snake rivers that harness water behind massive walls of concrete. On their journey upstream every year, the salmon are aided by fish ladders that allow them to bypass oncoming currents. But the trip downstream from the spawning grounds to the Pacific is a treacherous 1,450-km (900-mile) journey that obliterates up to 11 million juvenile salmon, called smolts, a year. Slack pools created by reservoirs behind the dams have slowed the smolts' traveling time from seven days to six weeks. This increases their...
Harvard men's tennis team will take to the courts at 8 a.m. today against Duke and begin its journey through the USTA/ITCA National Indoor Team Championship at the Louisville Tennis Club in Louisville...
Owen, of course, jumps at the chance to get out of his routine, even though his only previous experience of sailing alone was a five-day journey from West Palm Beach, Fla., to New Bern, N.C., during which he fell prey to hallucinations. Anne, at first, thinks the whole idea is crazy: "She was certain she could prevent him from trying it, if she dared. But then there would be the rest of life to get through." So Anne accedes to the plan and talks herself into becoming its cheerleader: "Imagine what kind of a feeling it is," she says...
With mother and child both recovering nicely, Tomassoni was able to make the journey down to Yale...
Freejack redeems itself in the end with its intricate and somewhat psychedelic computerized journey into the minds of Furlong and McCandless during the bodily transplant...