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Avoiding Earthquakes. Canadian boosters have busily promoted this alternative for months. For one thing, building such a pipeline and its service road would open up to development the country's vast potential reserves of Arctic oil and proven reserves of natural gas. For another, it would send Canadian as well as Alaskan oil directly to the U.S.'s thirsty Midwestern markets. Equally important, it would avoid some of the unique problems besetting the proposed Alaska pipeline...
...smoothly as a Swiss watch. Steady economic growth was matched by full employment. Swedes enjoyed Europe's highest per capita income. Most enviable of all was the nation's record of labor peace. Except for one drawn-out struggle by iron miners in remote Kiruna within the Arctic Circle, it had not suffered a major strike since 1945, when metalworkers staged a five-month walkout. All of this seemed even more remarkable in light of the fact that virtually everyone in Sweden-even clergymen-belongs to a labor union...
Scientists disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
...Swiss Alps found little joy in temperatures that reached -13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm, a deep Arctic freeze brought thick fogs, heavy snowstorms, knife-sharp winds and freezing rain to France, Britain, Spain, Italy, the two Germanys and most of Eastern Europe. It was Europe's most freakish winter weather in memory...
...vague feeling that life is slipping out of control. Take mercury, a poison that can destroy brain and nerve cells. Last spring dangerous concentrations of the metal were found in fish from the Great Lakes region. By year's end, mercury had also turned up in tuna, swordfish and Arctic seals. Suddenly it seemed clear that the poison, an industrial waste, had tainted the oceans to an alarming if still unknown degree...