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...endangered animals to the preservation of islands like the Galapagos for scientific study. The measures that are approved in Stockholm will go to the U.N. General Assembly for ratification in the fall. To the more militant environmentalists, however, the official agenda offers only what some of them call "Band-Aid solutions" to dangerous problems. In a separate Environment Forum, they are focusing on population growth and wasteful technology, which the agenda hardly mentions. The U.S.'s most articulate ecologist, Barry Commoner, urged a near Utopia. "To solve the environmental crisis," he said, "we must solve the problems of poverty...
Along with Coke, Jeep, Mace, Band-Aid and Levi's, one of the world's most famous trademarks is Esso. It is used by Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) in foreign countries and many parts of the U.S., where Esso is the trademark of the domestic operating arm, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Trouble is, legal restrictions following the 1911 breakup of the old Standard Oil trust have barred Humble from brandishing the Esso name in 20 states. In parts of the South and West, the company uses the label Enco, or, in Ohio, Humble...
...system in which they must work. The Nixon administration has cut back the VISTA project in the county by fifty per cent and has forbidden VISTA to do anything in politics. This has had the effect of reducing their efforts to what some volunteers have aptly called a "band-aid strategy." They can teach kindergarten, but they cannot work to change the power structure. Consequently, a kindergarten with which a volunteer has worked for a year may pass on to a first-grade teacher who is an alcoholic and who will ruin all of the progress made so far. This...
...little boy and you've scraped your knee, home is where you go to get a kiss and a band-aid from your mother. And when you become a man, you're happy to come home at night to the wife and family, safe from the world, at least for a while. Yes, home is where the heart is. Although people often search for a home away from home, they rarely find one. For there's no place like home. Home, sweet home...
...academic society is responsible for all our troubles in this country. They don't know what's going on." John's reaction is a matter of conjecture, but a few days later, when a White House elevator door nearly closed on Martha, she was offered a Band-Aid. "What should I do with it," she asked, "put it over my mouth...