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...been virtually wiped out because the nutritional sediment washing downstream that formerly sustained sea life is now silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been an alarming spread of schistosomiasis. Also, a water weed is growing so fast in Lake Nasser behind the dam that it may endanger the hydroelectric function by increasing evaporation from the lake...
Moore's abrasiveness soon got her into trouble in the Hearst food-giveaway program. "She has an amazing ability to move right in and drive everybody crazy," recalled Steven Weed, Patty's former fiance, who worked at PIN. Finally, Moore was evicted from PIN. "We marched her out of the office, screaming and crying, with two men holding her arms," recalled another PIN worker...
Screaming, wearing only a blue bathrobe, Patty was dragged from her apartment by three members of the S.L.A., who kicked and struck her fiance Steven Weed with a bottle before stuffing Patty in a car trunk and speeding off. Trying to meet the S.L.A.'s demands for ransom, the Hearsts gave away $2 million worth of food to the poor in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the food was tossed off trucks in neighborhoods of needy people in San Francisco and Oakland, mobs fought angrily for the supplies, then broke bitterly into small-scale rioting when the gifts...
...those exclusives have been rare. From the day the kidnap story was broken by the nearby Oakland Tribune until six months ago, the paper remained a compulsory half-step behind everyone else. The Examiner discreetly made no mention in its initial stories that Patty had been living with Steven Weed, and as recently as July failed to report a meeting between her parents and the Jack Scotts, a get-together that was widely covered elsewhere...
...smoke too much pot may find more than their inhibitions lowered when they get into bed. Their problem, however, need not be permanent. The study also showed that every subject's testosterone level-and ability to perform sexually-returned to normal two weeks after giving up the weed...