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...humanity of his adversaries. He listened more than he talked. He was true to his clients and our system of justice, never wanting to compromise one for the other. He declined every opportunity to be self-important, slipping silently out of the White House, no fanfare. When those with power came for his clients, he spoke for them; when they came for his colleagues or friends, he stood with them; and when they came for the powerless, he spoke for them...
Surprisingly, little more than a generation ago this jewel didn't even exist. Lake Powell was not formed until after 1963, when the government built a huge dam in Glen Canyon to control the waters of the Colorado River and generate hydroelectric power for the growing Southwest. The project outraged environmentalists and archaeologists because it submerged ancient homes, wall writings and burial grounds of the ancient Puebloans. It took 17 years for the Colorado River and other tributaries to fill the gorges and turn Lake Powell into the nation's second largest man-made lake. (Only Lake Mead, which borders...
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...triple the size of a hang-glider-size plane and triple its wingspan to 90 ft. while keeping its weight the same," MacCready explains, "the power needed to fly it goes down by a factor of 3, to about 0.4 horsepower." And that, he knew, was what a trained cyclist could pump out for several minutes at a stretch...