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...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
While the bulk of published research has indeed found some correlation between watching fictitious violence and behaving aggressively, the correlation is statistically quite modest; most of the observed "aggressiveness" is bratty boisterousness, not violence. And causality -- he sees Walker, Texas Ranger and therefore seriously hurts someone -- is nowhere convincingly demonstrable. Even Brandon Centerwall, a prominent anti- TV researcher at the University of Washington, figures that watching TV increases kids' average level of physical aggressiveness only...
...credits for this," he says) -- notes shyly that the museum is history. "Sure, this isn't the Revolution or the Civil War. But it's still history. He has a story to tell. Hell, I have a story to tell. You have a story to tell." It's a modest ode to a common man -- a man lifted by circumstance from an ordinary stage to an extraordinary one. No museum can explain luck...
COVERING THE UNINSURED. Twenty-seven states have established comprehensive insurance associations, essentially high-risk pools financed with state money, that offer medical insurance to people in poor health who need extensive care but cannot now buy insurance to pay for it. Iowa has an especially modest program: it forbids insurance companies to turn down people who already have insurance but apply for new policies -- because they change jobs perhaps -- on the basis of pre-existing conditions. The law applies only to insurers of companies with 50 or fewer employees, but "it's a start," says Tim Gibson, spokesman...
Bonding sounds ominous, if it means posting big bucks to be forfeited (as with a bail bond) in case of calamity. But it would be hard to argue against voluntary hiking-and-climbing insurance, perhaps offered at modest extra cost along with park entrance fees. In Austria insurance comes with membership in the Alpine Club, which costs little and also gives unlimited opportunity to climb with experts...