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...water industry is now hastily examining the places it might be vulnerable. Captured terrorist suspects in Pakistan told their interrogators that al-Qaeda was dabbling with such toxins as cyanide and botulinum. But poisoning reservoirs isn't considered a realistic threat, since it would take truckloads of toxins to contaminate a typical reservoir, and any biological agents would be destroyed during purification. Considered far likelier is a truck bomb or other explosive device set off beneath a pumping station. "For instance," says Curtis, "one city has six giant pumps, and they're all in one building. If you crashed...
Upstream in the Dakotas, river-fed reservoirs have stimulated an $86 million annual tourist business. There residents are in favor of using the dams to mimic the natural flow. Reason: less water will be sent downstream in the summer. That means more water for their marinas and lakes, so boaters won't be left high and dry. In Garrison, S.D., behind the vast reservoir created by the Garrison Dam, businesses see their sales fluctuate with the level of the reservoir. Last year sales hit $11 million, but in years when the corps sends water south to keep barges from running...
...Radcliffe will wait until May 21 for the seedings to be announced for the championship, to be held on Indianapolis’ Eagle Creek Reservoir. Twelve teams nationwide will receive automatic bids, with at least one team representing each of five national regions. Aside from those berths—which will bring two eight-person boats and one four—four at-large bids will be handed to eight-person boats...
...Thanks to an unusually dry winter, the Eastern seaboard is suffering from what some experts are calling the most severe drought on record; at least five states have declared drought emergencies. And in the Midwest it's almost as bad; crops are withering for lack of rainfall, and reservoir levels have dropped to dangerously low levels...
...films noirs; in Los Angeles. Over an 80-movie career, Tierney was best known for playing the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, and enjoyed a resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured...