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Saipan, part of the Northern Marianas, which are among the islands, reefs, waters and parts of the Pacific Ocean floor that President Bush will designate as marine national monuments. SISSIE BRIMBERG/National Geographic  
NYTimes  

Protected waters

Bush to create three marine monuments in Pacific

President Bush will create three national monuments in the Pacific Ocean today, protecting waters near U.S.-controlled islands that contain some of the world's richest diversity of corals, fish and other sea life as well as unusual geological formations in the deepest undersea trench. (Los Angeles Times)
ALSO:
• Bush to protect vast new Pacific tracts
• NOAA, NSF national study of ocean acidification
• PEW Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy
• Photo gallery of protected areas
• Official White House maps

Plasma gasification is the process of breaking down matter at the atomic level by exposing it to high temperatures. GOVTECH.COM  
GovTech.com  

Capital idea

Sacramento considers plasma gasification for waste

"Why don't they just fill a rocket full of garbage and shoot it at the sun?" Many who want to reduce pollution but have a flimsy grasp on rocket science and economics have asked this question. But what if such a feat could be accomplished without a rocket? That's essentially what plasma gasification is designed to do. (GovTech.com)

Newly appointed Goleta Water District general counsel Fran Farina is no stranger to water law, and she’s eager to wade into the district’s challenges. SONIA FERNANDEZ/Noozhawk  
Noozhawk  

Diving right in

For GWD's new general counsel, water's in her blood

With water becoming an increasingly complex issue in the Goleta Valley, it takes a certain kind of person to want to jump into the fray. Fran Farina is eager to prove she is just that kind of person as she takes up her post as general counsel for the Goleta Water District. (Noozhawk)  GWD SITE

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JAMES DARBIN
Marina Coast Water District

A good 50 years
MCWD recently tore down this 250,000-gallon elevated welded steel tank, built in 1958 on the former Fort Ord Army Base. This tank has been replaced by  a hydro-pneumatic station, part of an $8.5 million project that includes removal of a 1 MG concrete reservoir and replacement with a 2 MG welded steel tank.
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Earl Scruggs, 85; E.L. Doctorow, 78; Bonnie Franklin, 65; Kim Wilson, 58; Rowan Atkinson, 54; Nancy Lopez, 52; Howie Long, 49; John Singleton, 41.

On this Day in 1994
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant in Detroit. Four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison.

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