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...brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving him a couple of songs to sing. "Gotta get away to Cairo/Ai-ro/Illinois!" he croons brightly with Huck as they pole their way upstream toward freedom and a soundtrack record album...
...best piece of museum news I've had in weeks is that Atlantic Salmon from Canada's Sanguenay river are now on exhibit at the New England Aquarium. I wish them luck trying to swim upstream. K.E. Briney...
Every year it is the pain and pleasure of Senior Editor Timothy Foote, Associate Editor R. Z. Sheppard, and the other members of the Books section to fight their way upstream through a torrent of titles and find, judge and write about the books that are eventually reviewed in TIME. "There are some 30,000 new titles published every year," says Foote, "but only about 6,000 are actually submitted for possible review." This week Foote and Sheppard collaborated in producing a section devoted entirely to children's books; it includes an article (by Sheppard) on Maurice Sendak...
...years ago wouldn't have met Massachusetts standards of swimmability, if modern Massachusetts officials can be believed. They say that the Charles fails to meet one of the two standards of swimmability--transparency, indicated by the visibility of a white and black disc four feet underwater--because upstream swamps and marshes release organic acids that turn the water dark. "As far upstream as you go, it's brown," Noss insists. Chlorinating the river would help solve this problem, but it would do little to meet the more serious objections to the water's quality...
Brown found that the once forested areas in the foothills where the Indus, the Ganges and the other major river systems originate had been "heavily cleared." That brought disaster in August and September, when the subcontinent was hit by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades. "Upstream," Brown explains, "the forests that used to slow down and absorb water runoff were no longer there. The rate of runoff into rivers was therefore much faster." Thus rainfall that caused moderate flooding 20 years ago, this year inundated millions of acres of croplands in six Indian states and southern Pakistan...