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...girls are led up the rock by Miranda. She is the loveliest among them. The Frinch schoolmistress compares her to a Botticelli angel as she jumps a stream and disappears between some trees, leading her classmates toward oblicion. They remove their black stockings and shoes to feel the rock on their bare feet. They fall asleep languidly on the warm rock, awaken, and drowsily walk away from the world...
Brent Backwelder of the Environmental Policy Center said yesterday two task forces have warned of the flood dangers posed by stream channeling and the construction of dams...
...tape reductions. To make it easier for important new energy projects such as refineries and pipelines to come on-stream without years of delays, regulatory hearings and appeals, Carter signed an Executive order setting strict deadlines for processing applications. He also said that the Administration would take action to slice through the bureaucratic barriers that have bogged down plans by Standard Oil of Ohio for a pipeline to carry Alaskan oil from California to Texas. The pipeline would enable some 350,000 bbl. per day of Alaskan oil to reach Eastern markets, thereby displacing the need for an equal amount...
...April 6, 1969, Easter Sunday, two canoes set out on the Russian River, a few miles east of Guerneyville in Northern California. The river was running very high and very fast. The group travelled about a mile without incident until, while rounding a turn in the stream, both canoes struck a tree that had been mostly obscured by the flood. The lead canoe tipped its passengers and then righted itself, floating out of reach of the boaters. The second wrapped itself around the tree and stayed there, a bizarre Christmas ornament one holiday late. Rescuers in Guerneyville picked up five...
...islands are as delightful to the philologist as they are to the bird watcher or plant stalker. All Hawaiian place names have meanings, poetic or factual. Maui's Waianapanapa, site of a 120-acre, stream-laced state park, is "glistening water." There are lao (valley of dawning inspiration), Kapilau (sprinkle of rain on leaves), Lanilili (rippling surface) and Waiakoa (waters used by warrior). Kaanapali is "rolling cliffs." It is comforting when boating off Wailea to know that the "waters [are] governed by Lea," goddess of canoe making. Lahaina is "land of prophecies...