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...true that crime doesn't pay, but in Iowa's rural Humboldt and Delaware counties criminals do. Both counties have begun charging prisoners for their room and board. Since April 1, Humboldt has been billing its inmates $30 a day; Delaware followed suit on May 1 with a more modest daily rate of $20. Says Humboldt County Jail Administrator Richard Jurgens: "The taxpayers are sick and tired of paying for drunken drivers and bad-check artists...
...waters off Peru and Ecuador are usually an exceptionally rich fishery. As the cold Humboldt Current sweeps north from the Antarctic, it lifts a rich mix of nutrients from the ocean floor that lets a variety of marine life flourish. In 1970, Peruvian fishing boats called bolicheras (from the Spanish word for dragnet) hauled in 13 million tons of anchovies, a fifth of the world's total fish catch. Now, the warm equatorial water is blocking the upwelling of nutrients from the sea bottom. The result is economic disaster. The anchovies are largely gone. Coastal waters have turned into...
...oscillation's major effects is a reduction of the trade winds that sweep the Pacific's warm equatorial waters westward. As a result, some of the water flows south toward the South American coast, rising over and blocking the cold Humboldt waters from the Antarctic. This is how El Niño is born. But the oscillation also appears to tweak the Northern Hemisphere's weather as well. This year the increased west-to-east jet stream, which usually diminishes during winter, has raised sea levels 8 in. above normal and brought huge amounts of precipitation...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, long known for its sunny beaches and mellow populace, has developed into the intensive legal battle-ground for draft registration. In San Diego, enforcement began last June, when 21-year-old Humboldt State University student Benjamin H. Sasway was indicted. And in Los Angeles, where federal officials are now fighting to prosecute 21-year-old former Yale University student David Wayte, the whole system could come tumbling down...
Monday's demonstration in support of Benjamin H. Sasway, the Humboldt State College student sentenced to a prison term because he refused to register for the draft, falls somewhere in between. Despite a last minute relocation to a sight between the Science Center and Mem Hall, the rally still managed to draw about 300 people. But the event was marred by communication difficulties with the University and organizational problems that left people thinking about what could have been...