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Freshman Jennifer Kearney finished second in the mile run to Cornell's Jen Cobb...
...dropped us off on the outskirts of the town and we'd make our way to the mile-long Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg's main thoroughfare. It's closed to all but pedestrian and equestrian traffic. (We were always on foot because my parents never humored us with carriage rides...
Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and tributaries are inhabited by only 2.5 million salmon a year, nearly 75% of which are spawned in domestic hatcheries. Logging and grazing on public lands have eroded soils and buried spawning grounds. Delicate habitats have been dried up by the pumping of hundreds of millions of acre-feet of water...
...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 exposure to predators and to higher water temperatures that make them susceptible to disease...
...credence to reports of recipients suffering rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma, a rare connective-tissue disorder. The experts also found that the silicone sacs could rupture 5% to 10% of the time -- far more frequently than Dow Corning had previously conceded. "You can buy a tire with a 40,000-mile guarantee," remarked a panel member, "but no one really knows the useful life of a breast implant...