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...Manu is also one of the few places on earth where visitors can see giant river otters. The aggressive 70-lb. mammals make their home on lakes upstream from the lodge. Viewed from the vantage point of a dugout canoe, one otter family offered an idyllic vision of life in the wild, frolicking from one side of the lake to the other, while pausing occasionally to feast on abundant fish...
Virtually unchallenged by natural predators, billions of zebra-mussel larvae left their initial colonies in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie and drifted into Lake Ontario. By attaching themselves to boats, some adventuresome mussels even managed to move upstream into Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Similar outriders are expected to start showing up in smaller lakes and major rivers such as the Mississippi, the Susquehanna and the Hudson. "Within 20 years," predicts Margaret Dochoda, a biologist with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, "the zebra mussel will likely have taken the entire East Coast...
...first running of the race--a three-mile test of endurance rowed from Magazine Beach east of B.U. upstream to Herter Park just past the Eliot Bridge--was held on October 16, 1965, and attracted less than 100 boats. Since then, the regatta has mushroomed into an enormous New England tradition that attracts thousands of athletes from all over the world and more than 250,000 spectators each year...
...country's population of 55 million is growing by 1 million every nine months. Already the people must import 65% of their food, and the situation could grow far worse. The flow of the Nile, Egypt's only major water supply, will be reduced in coming years as upstream neighbors Ethiopia and Sudan divert more of the river's waters. Egypt's only practical course is to brake population growth and reduce the enormous amount of water wasted through inefficient irrigation techniques...
...small wonder that the directors of homeless shelters and big-sibling programs should look for more enduring solutions. Like the man who walked upstream, the PBH leadership recognizes the need to address society's ills on two fronts. A real solution must change the system that is producing homelessness and illiteracy in the first place. And the only way to change the system is to say when it is wrong...