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...double the number of salmon to 5 million to make up for those lost in the dams. To meet this goal, the council established fish hatcheries and installed screening devices at many dams to prevent smolts from being sucked into the turbines. The council has also ordered barges to transport smolts around the dams and has increased the flows by releasing water from storage reservoirs...
There was almost no warning last week before a giant C-130 transport plane of the Kentucky Air National Guard plummeted into a restaurant and motel in Evansville, Ind., and then exploded in a giant fireball. Sixteen people were killed in the crash, including the five crewmen aboard the plane, two workers at JoJo's restaurant, and nine people at the adjacent Drury Inn motel, all of them employees of a plumbing-supply company, who were gathered in a fourth- floor conference room...
...decades the Kremlin kept all air and rail transport in the U.S.S.R. on "Moscow time." Trains and planes arrived in and departed from the farthest reaches of an empire that sprawled over 11 time zones as if everything took place in the capital. Last week decommunized Moscow moved its clocks ahead one hour in a bid to save energy, but the other republics refused to follow. Result: mass confusion...
BOOKS How sneakers became our favorite form of mass transport...
...aboard a transport in the Palau Islands, waiting for word to go to the Philippines. When I heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I felt glad that we had won the first strike. At the same time, worries crept over me like a black cloud: if the U.S. really fought back, Japan might lose...