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Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and tributaries are inhabited by only 2.5 million salmon a year, nearly 75% of which are spawned in domestic hatcheries. Logging and grazing on public lands have eroded soils and buried spawning grounds. Delicate habitats have been dried up by the pumping of hundreds of millions of acre-feet of water...
WITH the New Hampshire primary only 15 days away, voters in the Granite State remain a remarkably undecided bunch. None of the five major Democratic candidates--not Bob Kerrey, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, Jerry Brown or Bill Clinton--has successfully won the hearts of a wide swath of New Hampshire voters...
Chuck and fellow band members Flavor Flav (the gentleman who perpetually wears a large clock around his neck) and Terminator X have succeeded in making a narrow strip of the 'hood into a wide swath of territory that serves nicely as an image of contemporary urban America, sundered by poverty and racism. It's a place the band knows intimately, if not exactly by birth. Chuck D, born Carlton Ridenhour, was the eldest of three children of a middle-class family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew...
...powerful -- and controversial -- publicists in America. Her clients range from Texaco, which she helped to fend off a takeover bid staged by raider Carl Icahn, to junk-bond king Michael Milken, whose infamy she tried to % subdue. Together the Robinsons are a nonpareil power couple who cut a broad swath through the toniest boardrooms and ballrooms of the corporate elite...
...over weight discrimination in the workplace is far from over, however. Studies indicate that fat bias cuts a wide swath through U.S. industry, from executives to waitresses. And in most cases, no laws are broken. The problem is especially acute in service industries, where employees meet the public. According to Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont, "If two people, one fat and one thin, walk into a company with the same qualifications, the heavier one will get a more negative reception...