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...time hydrologists figured this out, it was almost too late. A huge earthen dam had been thrown up along the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee and a great swath of the northern Everglades transformed into prized farmland -- source of most of the U.S.'s cane sugar and 10% of its winter vegetables. To speed development and protect those farmlands from flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been...
...WHETHER MICROSOFT IS TOO POWERFUL AND RUTHLESS: Given the amount of mud people have thrown up on the wall to see if it sticks, I think it's pretty amazing that not a speck of dirt has ever stuck . . . There's no shortage of competition in the computer industry. You'll never have anybody in a very dominant position for very long because they have to prove themselves constantly. You can't just sit on a market position; the fact you have a 70%- to-80% share means nothing in the next round...
...plans were immediately thrown overboard when someone said no, I don't want you to do this," she says. "If I had anything to say to the women who are graduating this year, I would say make serious, practical plans...
...thrown her Gatorade bottle down. She has tossed her stick indignantly under the bench. And she sits alone, trying to come to grips with the fact that she has played in her last game ever for the Crimson...
...conflagration and surrendered were forced to leave by Koresh for getting into the would-be prophet's Scotch cache. At first Koresh punished the three -- Kevin Whitecliff, Brad Branch and Oliver Gyarfas -- by ordering them to bury a rotting corpse. Finally the Scotch-drinking cult leader had them thrown out. The trio are being held in jail in Waco...