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The researchers conducted additional tests to evaluate the use of various measures to reduce scour, including wing walls (short retaining walls that guide a stream into a culvert), pile dissipators (vertical arrays of circular piles buried just below the channel bed), riprap (rough stones placed to prevent scour), and cross vanes (sets of upstream-angled lines of boulders, connected by a section of smaller rocks upstream).
The population gradually becomes physically less efficient as the producers of wealth--morally so from idleness--politically worthless as having few desires to satisfy, and noxious as dissipators of capital accumulated.
All this would have been very moving and a great dissipator of cynicism if the skipper of the boat behind us had not shot the seal when it surfaced, pulled it aboard with a gaff and posed beside it for a group of Koreans, who paid him one krone per picture.
 
 
 
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