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...efficiency. Observing that Japanese exports are the most vulnerable part of the economy, he suggested that mercury-tainted tuna might be "the first glimmer on the horizon" of a new fact: "Japan's pollution problem is being internationalized." and could form "a new kind of nontariff trade barrier...
...geology. As North America slowly crept westward away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Wilson says, the west coast of the continent eventually met up with another segment of the ridge system called the East Pacific Rise. But the moving continent did not stop at this natural barrier; instead it bulldozed right over it. As a result, the West now sits smack atop this hot seam in the earth's crust...
...Soviet naval presence in the western Atlantic, there is some evidence that the crisis has merely been postponed. U-2 reconnaissance photographs show that the base is almost complete (see map). In addition to bunkers for storing submarine-borne nuclear weapons, the Russians have built a steel antisubmarine barrier net between the shore and the island of Cayo Carenas and have installed antiaircraft emplacements. They have also built a pier for docking submarines and elaborate rest and recreation facilities. The bay now contains two storage barges designed to receive the discharges of nuclear-contaminated effluent from submarines. The tender that...
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...criticized Cambridge police treatment of minority groups, especially Puerto Ricons, who "face not only a color barrier, but also a cultural and language barrier...