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Impact - July 1999
Submitted on 7.31.1999
July 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Science News: Life Imitates Art--Again
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 7.27.1999
Years ago I recall a cartoon in a lampoon issue of National Review that showed a pot-bellied Archie Bunker-type reading the newspaper and commenting to his wife-in-curlers: "Sez here they’ve taught chimpanzees to speak. Great--another Third World country in the U.N." Sure enough, on Monday came the news out of Georgia State University that researchers there have taught a chimp a vocabulary and grammar of about 3,000 words, and have "conversed" with the chimp by means of a Stephen Hawking-style voice box.
Ending California's Water Crisis: A Market Solution to the Politics of Water
Submitted by Erin Schiller, Elizabeth Fowler on 7.1.1999
Although known as "the Golden State," water is undoubtedly California’s most precious resource. Beginning with the gold rush during the mid-1800s, water has guided California’s settlement and defined its landscape. At the turn of the century as settlers turned to farming and ranching, they depended on irrigation to transform arid California into the country’s most productive agricultural region. Today, California’s growing population has led to increased urban and industrial demands, not to mention the constant need for water to keep California’s rich environment healthy.
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