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...This winter, with the likelihood of just as much rain, there will be some 35,000 residents in danger. If authorities try to make do with the crippled dam and it fails, "you're talking about a biblical wall of water swimming down the valley," says Kurt Triplett, interim executive of King County, home to the Green River Valley. So a controlled release may be the only way to regulate a catastrophe, even if it leads to flooding...
Engineers are frantically working to strengthen the dam, installing a "grout curtain," or, as Triplett explains, basically applying huge amounts of caulk, to firm up where the edges of the dam anchor into gravel. Because the engineers can't be sure that the patched dam will hold - and there is even a real possibility that the repair work could just ensure that the gravel collapses in one chunk, as opposed to failing in pockets - should the anticipated rains arrive, the only relatively safe option will be to deliberately release the dam. "What is crystal clear is that there will...
...ultimately that grim reality that prompted Triplett to declare a state of emergency in early September, likely months before the dreaded event. Government officials have requested $40 million in federal funding to prepare - the dam is a federal facility - in addition to another $16 million from the Army Corps of Engineers devoted specifically to bolstering levees down the river. While Washington's congressional delegates fight for the money in the nation's capital, preparations and public-awareness campaigns are already under way - including driving home the importance of purchasing flood insurance, and buying it right away...
...studies showing that the bacteria may not be content to just live on the surface of produce, and may actually set up shop inside plant tissues, making them impossible to eliminate with a simple dousing in a chlorine bath, the current way that most fresh produce is cleaned. Eric Triplett, chair of microbiology and cell science at University of Florida, has published two studies documenting the ability of bacteria like salmonella to travel into a plant through its root system. "We just inoculate the roots and up they go, they fully colonize all over the plant," he told TIME...
...Woods and Mickelson, and Woods and Singh, definitely have a history. Their competition has spawned an angry buzz that swirls around the pro tour like bees at a picnic. "If you're shooting to be No. 1 in the world, it's a lonely thing," says veteran golfer Kirk Triplett. "There's not a lot of friendliness when you're trying to beat a guy's brains in." Others are even more direct. "They rub each other the wrong way, sure," says one player. "A lot of it is arrogance. Some of it is condescension. I guarantee you they want...