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...miracle has been wrought," Gamal Abdel Nasser proudly announced to the people of Egypt after completion of the first stage of the Aswan High Dam. Indeed, the great structure-built with Russian aid and designed to harness the Nile and vitalize the stagnant Egyptian economy-has irrevocably changed the environment of the Nile River Valley and the lives of its inhabitants. But the results have not all been positive, and there is growing debate about whether the economic benefits of Aswan are outweighed by the ecological damage that it has caused...
Critics of the dam point out that it has obstructed the natural flow of silt that enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply...
...were Napoleonic properties; and when Hubert Robert, in 1798, took a maypole dance in Arcady and transformed it into a ring of nymphs dancing around an eroded and indecently suggestive obelisk, he gave a pastoral form to the obsession which, in part, seems to have driven Napoleon to the Nile -the symbolic conquest of eternity by masculinity...
...about the trip the heavyweight crew team made to Egypt during Christmas vacation. He said that although members of the Faculty had objected to the crew making the trip, he reported to the Athletic Department's Standing Committee that he was in favor of making the race on the Nile an annual event...
Died. Umm Kulthum, 76, "the Nightingale of the Nile," most beloved female singer in the Arab world; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Cairo (see THE WORLD...