Word: reservoir
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...source of that water seemed inexhaustible. Much of it comes + from 165-sq.-mi., dam-created Gatun Lake, through which the ships pass on their route across the isthmus. Most of the remainder is tapped from nearby Madden Lake, formed in 1935 (also by damming) to provide an additional reservoir of water for the dry season. But now a 375-page report by Stanley Heckadon Moreno, an environmentalist at Panama's Ministry of Planning, has raised a startling worry about the canal's future: it may be running short of water...
...Illinois, where North American collegians gather to consider overseas work. At the last meeting, in 1984, 4,683 students filed written pledges that they would go overseas, and 10,153 more vowed to pray about taking the step, double the commitments at the 1981 gathering. Says Kyle: "The reservoir of potential missionary candidates on the college campuses is astounding...
...Lincoln, around Cambridge Reservoir, and then come back in through Watertown," says Allis...
...Europe the only place to go. Bored with running around the Central Park Reservoir in Manhattan? For $2,345, jaded joggers can fly from New York's Kennedy Airport to Peking on April 26 and then join in a 10-km run to the Great Wall. Just want to get away from it all? For $1,264, Chile's Ladeco airline periodically flies tourists from Santiago to Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magel...
...little child in each of us would kill any person who infringed our slightest right," argues Rex Beaber, a clinical psychologist at UCLA. "A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response...