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...proposal. While water-authority representatives wait, the city has been busy reassuring everyone that its plan will be considerate of the land, with carefully monitored pumping that can be dialed back the moment evidence of harm comes to light. But in the desert there's not a lot of margin for error, and a chronic water imbalance can be environmentally devastating. Robert Hershler, a taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, has combed through the biota of hundreds of springs in the Great Basin region, including Snake Valley, and has discovered more than 100 new species of spring snails, some of which...
...reclaim the governor's office next year in this Republican-controlled state. A recent bellwether for the 2006 elections was the surprisingly tight Congressional race earlier this month for an open House seat in a GOP-dominated southwestern district that the Republican candidate won by a narrow four-point margin. Ohio House Democratic Leader Chris Redfern told TIME before the sentencing: "If he's convicted and doesn't leave office, there certainly will be a drumbeat for his removal. I'm picking out my drumsticks." - with reporting by Christopher Maag/Cleveland
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won the 2004 election by a margin of 1 million votes. She must not give up the good fight. Arroyo is my President. I decline to believe the malicious claims of the opposition and noisy minorities. The only viable course for Arroyo is to hang on to the presidency. If she heeds the call to resign, she will have surrendered to the whims of a mob. Brodrick H.H. Tabay Talisay City, the Philippines...
ROBIN HAYES, G.O.P. Representative from North Carolina, expressing his opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement two weeks before he changed his vote to help President Bush win passage of the bill, by a margin...
...they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very precise," says Thagard. "You can pick up heat so fast you get a breakup...