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Countless examples show that disregarding the natural balance is self-destructive. Deforestation in Southeast Asia has let the rivers wash fertile topsoil down the drain, so to speak, destroying the land and the habitat of the indigenous human population that was supposed to benefit from the cleared space. The same thing is being repeated in the Amazon...
...Lewiston, a port 748 km (465 miles) inland on the Snake River in Idaho, port director Ron McMurray says barge traffic may be halted several months a year, forcing farmers to transport cargo by rail or truck. Ron Reimann, who farms 1,295 hectares (3,200 acres) in Pasco, Wash., estimates that it will cost him $1.3 % million if he has to move his irrigation pumps to accommodate lower water levels. In addition, electricity rates are expected to rise as much as 8% because of the decreased efficiency of the hydroelectric plants. Aluminum manufacturers, lured to the region by cheap...
...exciting but still trying times. The promise of new discoveries is tempered by the knowledge that most patients past puberty have already suffered too much lung damage to be saved by even the most sophisticated therapies. Younger patients have a chance, but there are no guarantees. In Poulsbo, Wash., Brianna Oas' parents are philosophical. "We're fully aware that whatever they come up with may not be in time for our daughter," concedes Jim Oas, a naval-yard manager. Brianna has been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks, but, he adds earnestly, "we are still very hopeful...
...housemate Frank Aller, another Rhodes scholar, from Spokane, Wash., had come to a decision. He would resist the draft. He would become a fugitive from his own country. Clinton and Aller talked endlessly about the choices that were closing in on them. The conversations were urgent and anguished -- and by no means theoretical. Toward the end of 1969, the number of Americans killed in Vietnam climbed past...
...spent $10 billion. Nearly 1.5 million of them (including 20% of all Japanese honeymooners) journeyed to Hawaii, while the other half traveled on the mainland. And it's not just Disneyland that draws them. Some Japanese tourists are paying $1,600 for a five-day trip to Snoqualmie, Wash., where the TV series Twin Peaks (a big hit in Japan) was shot...