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Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner was attending a meeting of Southern farm officials in Baton Rouge, La., last week when he got the news. He left immediately for Miami. There, in a sour-orange tree in the backyard of a home in the Little Havana district, a state agriculture inspector had discovered one female and three male Mediterranean fruit flies in a trap. The medfly, as it is known, is a dreaded pest that could devastate Florida's billion-dollar citrus and vegetable industry if allowed to spread. Said Conner: "We're very concerned. This is obviously...
...continues to produce some 275 million metric tons of poisonous wastes each year, and millions of metric tons still await disposal. Concerned citizens across the nation, although they agree that hazardous materials should be disposed of somewhere, answer Ruckelshaus' reasoning with the acronym NIMBY: Not in My Backyard...
...incinerator ships. The halt meant that three specially designed vessels were temporarily left high and dry. The move did not calm environmentalists, who are concerned about the fate of the oceans and the coastlines. Says EPA Director of Water Regulations and Standards Steven Schatzow: "The definition of 'backyard' has become much larger...
...skylight in his attic. But these days he spends more time watching a computer screen displaying a TellStar program, made by Scharf Software Systems of Boulder, Colo. With the help of the software, Litsios, 52, created a graphic representation of the heavens just the way they appear from his backyard by simply typing in the time, date and geographic coordinates of his suburban home. Now he can ask the program to identify a heavenly body that he has seen in the sky. Says Litsios: "This has really expanded my field of vision. I saw more in the six weeks after...
...Walter Mondale points out, "The lesson from Vietnam is not that we should forgo power everywhere at all times." But Gary Hart apparently wants to do just that. By unilaterally withdrawing American military might from Central America, he would foresake the chance for democratic change and endanger our own backyard. Hart's battle is long over: it does not belong in an area so close and so vital...