Alaska salmon, particularly the sockeye of Bristol Bay, are exceptionally well monitored and managed, with scores of counting towers and subsurface sonar sensors as well as dozens of human census takers.
The Wood, Nushagak, and Igushik rivers have counting towers or sonar devices to enumerate upstream migrating salmon that have escaped the fisheries.
The main body of the temple would be almost 45 feet high, not counting a tower and cupola.
The New Yorker, October 20 , 1997P. 27 Signed Comment for the Next Issue, about the future... Right now, in Paris, there's a big digital clock on the Eiffel Tower, counting the days to the year 2000.
By Adam Gopnik The New Yorker, October 20 , 1997P. 27 Signed Comment for the Next Issue, about the future... Right now, in Paris, there's a big digital clock on the Eiffel Tower, counting the days to the year 2000.
The Institute for Advanced Study here is the country's most rarefied of ivory towers, counting more than a dozen Nobel laureates among its past and present scholars.
The simple numbers -- 1,466 tenants and visitors died in the north tower, the first to be hit, while 624 died in the south tower, not counting 73 more for whom locations still cannot be determined -- tell a fair amount about how events unfolded that day.
After a few minutes of calculations made by eyeballing the tower and counting its number of floors, my friend concluded that it would be possible to launder as much as a hundred million dollars a year through that tower alone.
The spire, however, will count, raising the tower's height to 1300 feet.
