61.   Their dams can be hundreds of feet across, and battling beavers is a lesson in frustration.

62.   Those dams were essentially giant spigots on the rivers, and they enabled water managers to turn the waterways into an open-air water piping system.

63.   When the dam was finished, the village was left high and dry.

64.   With this venting, ice dams should be a thing of the past.

65.   Premier Zhu Rongji opened up the attacks by suggesting in December that outside consultants be brought in to make sure the dam is safe.

66.   A decade ago, the dam was the focus of anti-communist protest.

67.   A dam is, in reality, a concrete water-hole.

68.   After a year of preliminary work and seven months of night-and-day labor, the giant dam is probably too far along to be scrapped.

69.   According to the government the dam is vital for flood control, and that China needs the electricity.

70.   Aggravating the situation was the fact that the dam is still under construction.