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Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and tributaries are inhabited by only 2.5 million salmon a year, nearly 75% of which are spawned in domestic hatcheries. Logging and grazing on public lands have eroded soils and buried spawning grounds. Delicate habitats have been dried up by the pumping of hundreds of millions of acre-feet of water...
Funny Wordplay: Celery cuts. Roll models. Oil of Ole. Either ore. Jocular straps. Gambling through the woods. Getting chaste around a convent. Serving alcohol to miners. Javerbaum and Rosetti dig this kind of joke. Don't like puns? Stay home...
...Yamaguchi, 21, a 5-ft. sprite from Fremont, Calif., known for her precise, delicate artistry. Runner-up is Nancy Kerrigan, 22, of Stoneham, Mass., a Kate Hepburn-style beauty whose elegance carries over into her performing style. Third -- but national champion in 1991 -- is Tonya Harding, 22, of Portland, Ore., a bold, natural athlete who pays little attention to nuance, less to music. Tonya gets out there and jumps...
...potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least three to five years away. But even this state-of-the-art technology has got to be viewed as a godsend to the soldier...
...hard time," says Rosovsky. Increasingly, institutions are divvying up their limited funds into skimpy partial-aid packages rather than full grants -- a practice known as gapping. This leads students to overextend themselves by taking on unadvisably large loans or excessively demanding jobs. Both Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Amherst College in Massachusetts, for example, will ask their financial-aid students to kick in about $500 more than last year, either from loans or campus employment...