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...Silt and Snails. The dam and the 350-mile-long Lake Nasser behind it are also creating ecological problems. The rich alluvial silt that once flowed downriver and spilled over onto farm lands is being impounded behind the dam, forcing Delta farmers to buy synthetic fertilizers...
...then that I found the subtitle of my book. Nasser symbolized a "search for dignity" throughout the Asian-African world. He emerged from the grass roots, from the silt of the Nile Valley. He was determined to make his people feel proud to be Egyptians instead of posing as carbon copies of Frenchmen or anyone else...
...left Harvard by request, without a degree, and have long since forgotten the poem. However, the anticlimatic approach of the Fiftieth Reunion weirdly disturbs the deep psychic ooze and bottom silt, and disinters many, many memories (not all of them fond...
...were shot on sight. Result: the debilitating disease called schistosomiasis has become as great a public-health hazard in certain areas as malaria was 50 years ago. As usual, the missing links in the chain of events were discovered the hard way. It turns out that hippos keep river silt...
...also stopped the flow of silt down the Nile, which in the past offset the natural erosion of the land from the Nile delta. As a result, downstream erosion may wash away as much productive farm land as is opened up by new irrigation systems around Lake Nasser. Without the nutrient-rich silt reaching the Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have...