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Shaping up as an important milestone is the demolition of two large dams in Washington State's Elwha River, which flows from the mountains of Olympic National Park into the Juan de Fuca Strait. Their removal, scheduled to begin in 2008, would occur in stages, and if it goes as planned, the Pacific Northwest will lose only a tiny amount of hydropower and regain a legendary salmon fishery. But there could be problems. Behind the Elwha dams are some 18 million cubic yards of accumulated sediment, enough to fill four superdomes, and if a lot of that sediment starts...
...individuals of interest" at fewer than 100. Still, when FBI director Robert Mueller spoke to the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this year, he was worried about "the potential recruitment of radicalized American Muslim converts ... The process of recruitment is subtle and, many times, self-initiated, and radicalization tends to occur over long periods of time...
...Court stopped short of clarifying the Sony case further “to add a more quantified description of the point of balance between protection and commerce when liability rests solely on distribution with knowledge that unlawful use will occur,” the opinion stated...
...Much contemporary vandalism, says Sociologist Martin, is similarly vindictive, a blow struck in anger by the havenots, the oppressed and the dispossessed. "Most research into school vandalism," says Cohen, "indicates that there is something wrong with the school that is damaged. The highest rates of school vandalism tend to occur in schools with obsolete facilities and equipment, low staff morale and high boredom among the pupils...
Experts were quick to allay any public concern that such an accident might set off the missile warheads. A nuclear device, unlike older conventional explosives, cannot be detonated simply by a physical shock. The fission and then fusion reactions that must occur to explode an H-bomb can take place only if the weapon is armed electronically, which cannot happen accidentally. The warheads in the damaged tube "were obviously blown apart in the force of the explosion," says Vice Admiral Powell Carter Jr., director of the Joint Staff. Whether their remnants burned up or sank to the bottom...