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...softened by mist; this water trickled through the snow under last night's stars. At the head of the waterfall, downstream, its sparkle leaps into the air, leaps at the sun, and sunrays are tumbled in the luminescent waves that dance against the snows of southern mountains. Upstream, in the inner canyon, dark silences are deepened by the roar of stones. Something is listening, and I listen, too: who is it that intrudes here? Who is breathing? I pick a fern to see its spores, cast it away, and am filled in that instant with misgiving: the great sins...
...follicle, in the ovary; in any month, either of the female's two ovaries may contribute an ovum. Then the egg enters the nearby fallopian tube. If coitus has taken place, the egg will shortly run into a swarm of tailed sperm that have managed, like salmon battling upstream, to fight their way into this passageway. In a dramatic headlong plunge, a single sperm will penetrate the waiting ovum's outer layer, its 23 chromosomes joining the egg's 23. That produces the full complement of 46 chromosomes, which contain all the genetic instructions necessary to produce a complete human...
Columbia is the only calving glacier in western North America not to have experienced a drastic retreat in several thousand years. But ominous signs of instability have been reported by a U.S. Geological Survey team. Upstream from its face, the glacier has thinned by more than 30 ft. in one year, and since 1974, there have been periods of accelerated calving every summer. Says U.S.G.S. Glaciology Project Chief Mark Meier: "This suggests that there is not enough ice coming forward to keep up with the iceberg calving...
...result, the glacier's front end could shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...
...watery grave on the sixth hole, where he had a nine. His second shot dunked into the creek that runs down the left side of the fairway. He rolled up his trousers and took a swipe at the immersed ball, but only managed to nudge it a little farther upstream. He finally splashed his fourth shot onto terra firma...