Word: pathe
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...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...
Congress realizes that this is the only path that might truly lead to peace--but it can't singlehandedly make it work. The fluid state of diplomacy in the Middle East will not last long unless the Bush administration, which took upon itself the responsibility of stopping aggression in the region, now finishes the job it began...
Nonetheless, I strongly suspect that Widener does not suffer so much from a space problem as from an allocation of space problem. Anyone who has ever threaded the tortuous subterranean path from Widener to Pusey knows that the library system contains many empty corridors which could conceivably house books...
...pressure to achieve remains strong for Asian-American women too," says Cara Wong, 20, a Harvard-Radcliffe junior who switched from biochemistry to government studies last year. "I had such a narrow focus when I came here," she says. "The whole path to medical school was laid out for me. Then I started reading history and government here, and I really enjoyed them." Wong adds that her parents were "not at all happy" with the change. "My mother was afraid that as a government major I would end up as a welfare worker," she says...
Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat rendered Shamir's obstructionist policy all the more workable by alienating the West, his Arab bankrollers and the Israeli peaceniks. "The Palestinian path no longer goes through Arafat," says a senior U.S. diplomat. Some of the chairman's supporters suggest he may have to step down to restore the Palestinians' shattered credibility. Even that might not help. Though the Arab regimes pay lip service to their cause, blind attachment to Saddam has cost the Palestinians respect and sympathy everywhere. At the same time, the war has intensified the naked hatred between Palestinians and Israelis...