Word: ares
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Van Norman complains that his own land is not safe. Exploration crews have combed his family's 40,000-acre spread. Where the Van Normans hold only surface rights, the crews have staked white plastic plumbing pipes as claim to the minerals below. Van Norman sneeringly refers to the claim...
But the holes are another matter. Many of them are so large it would cost more than $100 million to fill them, which could, in some cases, wipe out the profits made from the mine. "Some people think the holes should be filled in," acknowledges Livermore. "But as a matter...
The session, scheduled for four days, collapsed after only two, during which pro-choice legislators turned back 14 antiabortion bills -- three of them proposed by the Governor. Abortion-rights activists were jubilant. "This has gone better than we hoped," exulted Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority...
Republican strategists have long feared that abortion could be the issue that divides the affluent, younger suburbanites from the hordes of fundamentalists and right-to-lifers who jointly swelled the G.O.P.'s ranks in the 1980s. Excited Democrats are testing out pro-choice positions to see whether they can lure...
Acid rain, overpopulation and global warming are inspiring international cooperation, but they are provoking "ecoconflicts" as well. -- How the U.S. can exercise leadership in the Third World. See Environment.