Word: rebuilds
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...sockeyes have vanished and the silver Chinooks have dwindled. The season is one-third as long, and Clark and his two sons are lucky if they catch 136 kg (300 lbs.) each day. Soon they may have to quit the business altogether because of a broad effort to rebuild the salmon populations on the lower Columbia and its main tributary, the Snake River. "Everyone who uses the river's water," he says, "is going to have to share the burden and pain...
...Turn underutilized military bases into drug-rehabilitation camps -- it's nuts that people who want to enter drug-rehab programs are turned away -- and, well, lots more (rebuild the infrastructure; put more computers in schools; provide financial aid for any kid who gets into college, repaid out of earnings). But the main thing, I think, is to get moving! And those signs. How about this: Notoriously Competitive 'N Big . . . NCNB...
...IRAQUIS STRUGGLE to rebuild an economy bombed back to the 11th century, as tens of thousands of Panamanians remain homeless two years after American planes bombed them out, politicians and Pentagon planners have begun considering new ways to drive Saddam Hussein from power, and America has failed to recognize that short video wars kill thousands of people when the bombs are dropping, and thousands more after they stop...
Last week's FDA decision sharply reduces the options for women seeking to augment or rebuild their breasts. Not only were silicone-gel devices easy to insert but their look and feel best approximated the real thing. For 90% of women, they were the method of choice. While implants inflated with salt water are still available and considered safe (if they leak, the saline does no harm), they have drawbacks. They can shift as a woman moves, and the water may settle into the lower portion of the breast, stretching and tightening the skin. They are not recommended for thin...
Such warnings have only limited effect. Under dark skies that threatened cloudbursts, evacuees at a Red Cross shelter in Angleton talked eagerly of returning to rebuild near the Brazos. "I prayed the water would never get too high," said Mike Horn, 32, an electrician who fled with creek waters lapping at his lawn. "But I don't care. I'm going home...