Hubris on the Yangtze.

• Position: Matters Of Scale - Three Gorges Dam

Height of the Washington Monument, the tallest 555 FEET structure in the U.S. capital Height of the new Three Gorges Dam in China, 575 FEET which is wider Cubic meters of concrete used to build the Panama Canal 4.3 MILLION Cubic meters of concrete required to build the 26.4 MILLION Three Gorges Dam Number of cracks, up to 2.5 meters in depth, that have appeared in the Three Gorges Dam since its construction 80 Number of engineers and other experts in China who urged their country's government to "rethink" its plans to push ahead with the Three Gorges Dam 53 Number of Cherokee Indians who were forced to abandon their homes and land in the infamous Trail of Tears emigration of 1838 2,800 Number of Chinese who will have been forced to abandon their homes and land by the building of the Three Gorges Dam 1,900,000 Percentage of farmers displaced by the Three Gorges Dam who will not receive land in compensation, according to current plans 40 Percentage of migrant laborers displaced by the dam so far who have failed to find replacement jobs in factories 40 Number of months an American official was jailed for...