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Along a broad expanse of southern Louisiana, between the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers, a million acres of wetlands have disappeared since 1900. ^ Scientists now estimate that an additional 60 sq. mi. are vanishing every year -- a rate that could double by 1995. "It's a catastrophe that's happening to...
While the oceans are rising, some coastal land is actually sinking. Much of the East Coast, for example, is made up of silt sediments deposited from rivers, bays and inlets over the past 5,000 to 8,000 years. As the sediments gradually compress under their own weight, the surface...
The high rains caused rivers and streams to burst out of their banks and some people were drowned after being caught in the raging floodwaters, the officials said.
Already one of the essays by Eugene Rivers '83 has sparked a minor controversy. Evans' article charges that the University never gave Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III a fair opportunity to be promoted to Dean of the College. Instead of Epps, who is Black, the University promoted former...
In the article, Rivers charged that Harvardfeels "the image of a Black in a powerful positionis still naturally undersirable." Rivers wrotethat Epps' candidacy for the job was purelysymbolic.