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...also available in cranberry and moss). We're proud to have brought a traditionally indolent people into the new economy, giving them dignity and a chance to contribute to their country's nascent gnp. And because we've taught the monks to scrupulously detoxify their dyes before dumping them upstream from the tiny, unspoiled Nepalese villages (whose honey-skinned children are so to die for that Jan and I actually adopted one), your purchase of our hand-stitched window dressing will help save the planet for future generations...
...June 10 contest on the Thames River in New London, Conn. the Crimson broke the upstream record for the third year in a row, Harvard (18:41.9) finished a full boat-length in front of the Eli (18:45.5), splintering the previous mark by more than 10 seconds...
...travel up the Yenisey River toward the Arctic. You look across the empty tundra and think you are alone in nature, miles upon miles from the nearest person, and you decide to stretch out on the riverbank. Unfortunately, you are lying in sands contaminated by plutonium from three upstream nuclear reactors whose radioactive wastes have been carelessly dumped for over 40 years...
...built in 1931 by Union Electric createdthe area's main landmark, the Lake of the Ozarks.A little further upstream, the U.S. Army Corpserected the Truman Dam a decade ago. Before thedams, steamships came up the Osage River from theMissouri River, and some early settlers thoughtWarsaw might one day grow to rival Kansas City inpopulation and commerce...
...lower price, numerous smaller dams could produce more power and greater flood-control benefits. They fear that a dam so large on the notoriously muddy Yangtze will lead to dangerous buildups of silt in some parts of the river, creating new obstacles to navigation and causing floods upstream. Chinese officials respond that both big and small dams are needed. Indeed, 10 projects smaller than Three Gorges, with a total capacity of nearly 12,000 megawatts, are under construction on the upper reaches of the Yangtze and its tributaries...