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From California to Maine, dam removal has begun. When four small diversion dams were taken off a Sierra Nevada stream called Butte Creek, record numbers of spring-run Chinook salmon--listed by the U.S. as a threatened species--rushed past their ruins to spawn. If the spring-run Chinook ends up on the more serious endangered-species list, that will trigger more restrictions on diversions from its spawning rivers. So helping the spring-run by getting rid of a few dams could be worth billions to California's economy, which is hopelessly dependent on the manipulation of water...
...seem much more captivated by the magic of a salmon's returning to its birthplace to spawn than by the miracle that obsessed our forebears: making deserts bloom. How to replenish water-dependent nature while meeting the demands of water-dependent society is going to test our ingenuity and will. Let's hope they won't be overtaxed...
...purely theoretical, though, since there's no conceivable way to make contact with even one of these alternate universes. So while each of us may spawn an uncountable number of parallel selves as the particles within us split and re-split, the chance of tapping into our other histories is precisely zero--and so, alas, is the chance of figuring out whether this interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct...
...percent as the effects of the rate hikes since last June are felt." But the new numbers highlight a growing debate among economists over whether the rules of the economy have changed. While the Fed remains wedded to the orthodoxy that growth above 3.5 percent must eventually spawn inflation, a number of other economists believe that productivity increases brought on by the new high-tech economy have fundamentally altered the rules, allowing for higher growth rates without inflation. "The latest numbers suggest the Fed has to be more open to the idea that the economy may have changed fundamentally," says...
...declaration that its patience could wear thin at any time raises the dangerous possibility that China has become more willing to use military force to achieve its political ends, and thereby represents a real escalation of the tensions across the Taiwan strait. Unfortunately, China's threats seem likely to spawn a vicious cycle of mistrust, making it only more likely that the Senate will vote to sell additional defense equipment to Taiwan, further angering the Chinese government...