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With the waters of the Charles River littered with visitors for Head of the Charles weekend, Harvard’s other aquatic teams traveled to different northeastern locales to compete in a trio of regattas. The No. 2 co-eds and the No. 4 women’s squad earned three top-10 finishes, with the women having the best weekend, finishing in second place at the team’s two-day regatta. WOMEN’S STU NELSON TROPHY The Crimson sent five sailors to Connecticut College for the Stu Nelson Trophy, which took place Saturday and Sunday...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...
...Chemicals spill into Chinese rivers nearly every day, and have left nearly all of the nation's surface water unfit for human consumption. Lanzhou's red tide, though dramatic, has so far has not been reported to have poisoned drinking water. The spill occurred during repairs at a steam-heating station, when water containing a pink dye to distinguish it from drinking water was discharged into a local septic system, and then flushed into the river. Lanzhou's environmental officials said Tuesday they were still assessing the impact of the spill, and that those responsible would be punished...
...China has long referred to the Yellow River - which runs a silted (hence "yellow") course from the plains of Qinghai near Tibet to the Bohai Bay, opposite the Korean Peninsula - as "China's Sorrow." The name refers to the floods that have plagued people along its banks for millennia, but it has resonated painfully in recent years as the river has fallen victim to excessive damming, frequent pollution and misguided diversion schemes...
...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...