Word: rivers
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...farm in Cornish, N.H., Gore announced a federal grant of over $800,000 to aid the Connecticut River as part of the American Heritage River initiative--a program created in 1997 to provide federal funds to restore and preserve rivers of national significance...
Gore said that the most important thing about the American Heritage River Initiative is to bring people together for a common cause...
...best way to renew a city is to reconnect it to the river," he said...
...Benjamin Netanyahu ? because Washington?s love affair with Ehud Barak may put the Palestinian leader in an uncomfortable position. "We don?t accept this," Arafat said Tuesday after Barak and President Clinton agreed on a 15-month peace timetable that appeared to tie the stalled implementation of the Wye River agreement to the conclusion of "final status" talks with the Palestinians. Although Barak hastened to reassure the Palestinian leader that Wye would be speedily implemented, the issue highlighted Arafat?s political weakness. "Arafat can?t challenge Barak because he can?t afford a confrontation with Washington," says TIME West Bank...
...June 9, Frank Gamballi, a friend of Kappfjell's, was killed in a jump from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Marta Empinotti, a Californian jumper whose boyfriend Steve Gyrsting crashed into a river at 100 m.p.h. when his chute failed, says that nonetheless she "couldn't live without" the sport: "I would die inside." To date 39 people have died outside...