Funny how there is no mention of Bush's name in the article.

You obsessive
hatred of him cannot be healthy.. I may not like the guy, but I'm not
obsessed about him. Quite frankly, it would have been nice if the city of
New Orleons itself was smart enough to try to maitain the levys themselves
instead of depending on the government for everything. Everyone knows that
you cannot depend on the government for anything no matter who is in office.


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http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/china

BEIJING (Reuters) - China completed construction on Saturday of the
giant Three Gorges Dam wall, a milestone in the world's largest
hydroelectricity project which is also designed to tame the
flood-prone Yangtze river.

Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen proposed the project as early
as 1918, and Mao Zedong once waxed poetic on his hopes for a "great
wall of stone" from which "a smooth lake" would arise among the
gorges.

Workers and officials marked the completion of the massive wall on
Saturday, in a ceremony broadcast live on state television.

A brass band played and confetti rained over the site after workers
poured the last batch of concrete.

In contrast to the launch of work on the dam in 1997, attended by both
then- President Jiang Zemin and then-Premier Li Peng, no top
officials attended Saturday's event.

State media praised the development company's decision to forego a
plan to spend upwards of 1 million yuan ($125,000) on the ceremony and
opt instead for a simpler one that cost only hundreds of yuan, saying
the move emphasized that the wall's construction marked only a partial
completion of the project.

Officials stressed that although construction of the dam's main span
was now complete, much of the work remained.

"Although the dam is now complete, we still have a long way to go and
cannot become self-satisfied or relax our efforts in the least," Li
Yongan, general manager of the Three Gorges Project Development Corp.,
said at the ceremony.

"We need to continue to put quality and safety first," Li said.

FIRST FOREIGN HELP

To that end, the company has asked two German engineering firms to
help design a hoist mechanism to lift ships, the Xinhua news agency
reported.

"The introduction of foreign cooperation in the project designing is
aimed at safety guarantee," Xinhua cited Li as saying.

Xinhua said this would be the first part of the project's design for
which China has enlisted foreign help, marking a departure from
relying only on homegrown designs.

The official China Daily in an editorial called for people to remember
the more than 100 people who died during the dam's construction, as
well as the 1.3 million people facing relocation to make way for the
dam's reservoir.

"The best possible way to repay such a debt of gratitude is to make
sure the highest safety and quality standards are observed up till the
very end of the entire building process," the editorial said.

One of the dam's main functions is to tame the Yangtze's floods, which
have drowned countless thousands over the centuries.

But the $25 billion project, which has become a symbol of China's
rising power and technological prowess, has been mired in controversy
for its environmental impact and its effect on so many people from its
conception.

Even when the parliament approved the project in 1992, nearly half of
its members voted against the measure -- a rare show of opposition in
the one-party state.

Many environmentalists say the dam's reservoir, which will reach a
depth of 156 meters (515 feet) by October, will become a cesspool of
sewage and industrial pollutants and that the creation of such a huge
artificial body of water could have unforeseen ecological effects.

Critics also decry the social impact of forcing so many people to
leave their homes, as well as corruption they say has kept some of the
25 billion yuan in funds set aside for resettlement from getting to
its intended recipients.

The entire project is set to be completed in 2009, when the reservoir
will reach its full level and its 26 turbines will all come online,
bringing its total power generating capacity to 18 gig watts.

The dam is 185 meters (607 ft) tall and 2,309 m (7,575 ft) long. It
and its attached locks have consumed 27 million cubic meters (35
million cubic yards) of concrete.




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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division

The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and
counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2454 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry

Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:

http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816

Funny how there is no mention of Bush's name in the article. You obsessive
hatred of him cannot be healthy.. I may not like the guy, but I'm not
obsessed about him. Quite frankly, it would have been nice if the city of
New Orleons itself was smart enough to try to maitain the levys themselves
instead of depending on the government for everything. Everyone knows that
you cannot depend on the government for anything no matter who is in office.

Funny how there is no mention of Bush's name in the article. You obsessive
hatred of him cannot be healthy.. I may not like the guy, but I'm not