Word: waterway
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...Engineers as the wranglers of an untamed river, has been plagued from the start by unintended consequences. To prevent catastrophic floods like the 1927 disaster that left 700,000 people homeless from Illinois to Louisiana, the Corps leveed and streamlined the Mississippi. That effort turned the meandering, porous waterway into the world's largest high-pressure hose, shooting sediment and nutrients off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Starved of silt and undermined by oil-drilling operations, the delta has been sinking at the same time global warming has caused water levels to rise. The result: every half...
...Bayou LaBranche, a green, glassy waterway some seven miles west of New Orleans, it's alligator-hunting season, and trappers have strung hunks of raw chicken on heavy hooks to dangle over the water. An 8-ft. gator leaps out of the dark waters to snatch the bait; a great egret flaps away from the commotion...
...there are strong arguments--beyond the sentimental ones--in favor of keeping New Orleans where it is. In a piece posted online in the Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report, Stratfor chairman George Friedman points out that the Mississippi River is the centerpiece of the nation's internal-waterway transit system and that the ports around New Orleans are the "key exit" of North America. They are located as far north as they can be and still be accessed by oceangoing vessels. And those essential ports require a skilled force--a city--to make them work. "New Orleans is not optional...
...Lonely Vigil, a book about Coastwatchers in the Solomons, historian Walter Lord describes how men - from plantation managers to accountants, gold miners to publicans - secreted themselves in the jungle and on mountaintops to keep an eye on virtually every move the Japanese made along the strategic waterway known as "The Slot," between Bougainville and Guadalcanal. Using long-range teleradios, the Coastwatchers were able to intercept Japanese communications and pass on real-time intelligence about supply runs, troop movements and air raids. As well, working with indigenous people like Gasa, the Coast-watchers charted shorelines, prepared landing beaches, provided guides through...
...reduce Canada's federal deficit by changing the indexation of old-age pensions. In August, many Canadians were offended when Ottawa failed to take the initiative in protesting the passage of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims as a territorial waterway...