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People in the Pacific Northwest may love the Snake River sockeye salmon, but they are also fond of the cheap hydroelectric power that makes utility rates in their region among the lowest in the nation. Soon they may have to decide which they love more. Eight power-generating dams built along the Columbia River since the late 1930s have fatally disrupted the path by which thousands of the salmon once swam 900 miles eastward from the Pacific Ocean to spawning grounds in the Snake River basin. Last year fishery-service counters there spotted just one lonesome sockeye...
...push the young fish along their way to sea. That could also lead to a one-third jump in regional utility rates and trigger another battle like the one over the spotted owl, pitting environmentalists against those concerned about the economy. "Salmon are at the center of the Northwest culture," insists Robert Irvin, an attorney for the National Wildlife Federation. True enough. But so is cheap electricity...
...them with regional editions of the Times, each tailored to local audiences by an on-site staff. While publisher Laventhol says he has no intention of ceding these outposts to entrenched regional and local newspapers, the Times has shelved ambitious plans to extend its reach into Northern California, the Northwest and, eventually, the Pacific...
...right, skillful). The Spanish word for left-handed, zurdo, means malicious. If you are gauche (left) in France, you are tactless and unsophisticated. Adroit comes from the French a droit (to the right), and we know what maladroit means -- especially when we see a left-handed violinist bowing northwest while the rest of the string section is northeast. A left-handed compliment is not nice, but a right-hand man is indispensable. If you get up on the wrong (left) side of the bed, you are grumpy. Even rwiting about it can give a leftie a migraine...
Fauth stayed in New York City for a day, then flew to the Midwest and then headed home to the Pacific Northwest. In this familiar region he did some gold panning with a cousin and visited the California redwood forests. He even found some gold, but it was "not enough to pay for the gas fare," he quips...