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...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...
...argument over military intervention aside, there was nothing to stop Washington from dispatching planeloads of humanitarian aid to the borders. The U.S. surely had stockpiles of food, tents and medicine at hand in southern Iraq, not to mention plenty of transport. In January it gave a drop-in-the-ocean $1 million to the Red Cross and Red Crescent to study setting up refugee camps in southern Iraq when U.S. forces leave. That was about...
Gorbachev struck back with a ban on all public demonstrations in Moscow for three weeks, suggesting that deputies in the Russian parliament would be intimidated if they had to wade through an ocean of yelling Yeltsinites. To make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning...
...Society of America in San Francisco, is the first to offer a plausible scenario for when and where the continents drifted during this critical period in the planet's history, just as life was beginning to emerge from the sea. It may help explain the birth of the Pacific Ocean, and even point the way to valuable mineral deposits. Said co-author Ian Dalziel, from the University of Texas at Austin: "The theory gives us a new road map for the past 570 million years...
...geography could shed light on several geologic mysteries. Researchers have not yet agreed on the origin of the Pacific Ocean. Some have suggested it was formed when Siberia split off from North America; a few even postulated it was created by the moon calving off from the earth long ago. In the new scenario, the ocean would have been created when Antarctica and Australia migrated away from North America 570 million years...