Finally, the man relented: "The fishes are endangered," he explained, "so they have to make an upstream course, so that they can spawn".
Emma Twig and Juliette Haigh of New Zealand, the winners in the women's doubles, set a record of 17 minutes 46 seconds over the three-mile upstream course.
In the Connecticut River above Northampton, Massachusetts, I've seen golf balls by the constellation — too deep to reach and too far from any upstream golf course for their presence to make sense unless people hit them off their lawns.
Harvard's men's heavyweight varsity won the 135th rowing of its tradition-steeped race with Yale, beating the Elis in the four-mile upstream Thames River course in Gales Ferry, Conn., by two and a half boat lengths.
Five minutes later, as Tony and I were making plans to meet the next night at his house for a look at his collection of old chalk stream books, we saw a fly-line suddenly appear over the Piddle cast upstream, of course, and dry.
The Guadalupe River, which overflowed the spillway of an upstream dam, coursed through New Braunfels at about 70,000 cubic feet a second today; the normal rate is 300 cubic feet a second.
Over the years, weeds began to encroach on my swimming area, encouraged by runoff from multiplying lawns (especially a golf course) upstream.
Ominous images of my own silent spring -- farm chemicals, industry upstream, the golf course across the road prompted an e-mail to Dr. Duke.
But for upstream countries, of course, membership of the commission would bring many restrictions and few benefits.China has, however, been keen to rid itself of the image of a budding regional bully, and has courted South-East Asian countries with trade concessions.
It also draws upon the expertise of a wider pool of faculty members in biology, physics, chemistry, and math teaching the same population of students in upstream or downstream courses, who have provided insight into prerequisite course content and the physics conceptual knowledge necessary for success in upper-level biology courses.
The winning time for Harvard's varsity, 18 minutes 55.6 seconds, was the fourth-fastest rowing upstream on the Thames River course at Gales Ferry, Conn., 13.7 seconds slower than the record set by Harvard in 1995.
