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...have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making it," Mao has said, "just as one learns to swim by swimming." For the Red Guards, the swimming seems more and more to be upstream...
...minutes. When the local people wish to drive cattle across these rivers, they sacrifice the oldest cow, driving it into the river first as bait. While the attention of the piranhas is focused on consuming that animal, the rest of the cattle cross in relative safety a few feet upstream. It is not difficult to see how, given the proper opportunity, a school of piranhas could devour a human being...
...bill now in the House Rules Committee which would provide water for the parched Southwest. In order to finance the project, the bill includes plans for construction, of two dams--one upstream from the Grand Canyon and one downstream--to provide hydroelectric power...
...mile, the Bulldogs trailed by half a length; after two miles, Harvard's margin was up to three boat lengths. Rowing mostly at a steady 33 strokes per minute, the Crimson oarsmen swept to a six-length victory, clocked 19 min. 44 sec. upstream to break the 17-year-old Thames River record by a fantastic...
...part of the Colorado River Reclamation Bill (HR4671). These dams will flood over half the canyon left unspoiled after the Glen Canyon Dam was built, including the entire Grand Canyon National Monument. Neither dam is designed to trap irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest of the irrigation project, but their great size would make them more expensive even in the long run than conventional generating plants. In any case, priceless, spectacular canyon scenery and ecology will be forever lost under lake sediment...