China's Three Gorges Dam is one step closer to being fully operational today. Chinese engineers blew up a temporary dam holding back the waters of the mighty Yangtzee River, allowing the river to reach its full height, more than 500 feet, behind the dam. The dam - a highly controversial project that has been many years in the making - will not be totally operational for three more years, but construction was completed last month.

A troubling number of U.S. fish stocks are floundering (ahem), and a bipartisan duo of senators is hoping to stem the tide. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)