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Near Fort Myers, Fla., a relatively new barrier island heaped up by the sea has attracted developers who want to link it to the mainland with a causeway; that, says Florida Environmental Consultant Dinesh Sharma, "would ruin the entire key." To the west in Louisiana, near Baton Rouge, landowners eyeing big profits from rich agricultural holdings support a plan that would fill in backwater swamps. Conservationists are fighting the idea, saying it would dry up an ecologically valuable resource...
...will have important design changes to correct past problems. To avoid the fires that were sometimes caused in rear-end collisions in the Pinto, the new cars' gas tanks are placed in front of, rather than behind, the rear axle. In addition, the automatic transmissions have a pronounced barrier between park and reverse to prevent slippage between the two gears. Last week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was still considering whether to force Ford to recall some 16 million vehicles because of that problem in earlier cars...
...thoughtfully on the way to their trains. By week's end vases of flowers could be seen among the plastic-covered bouquets stacked at the scene of the explosion, thus giving an air of permanence to the site. Occasionally a housewife would kneel in prayer against the iron barrier that police had set up around the hole. And in nearby towns and villages, streets were being renamed for "The Martyrs of Bologna...
...language barrier is what confounds the average tourist in Moscow. One is reduced to the most basic sounds and gestures to get around the city. Curious pidgin words, rather the way the Sioux talk in old western films, are produced-to no effect whatsoever. My first attempt at a conversation in Russian -just to say that I had tried-was with an elderly fisherman staring morosely at the tiny float of his line in the murk of the Moscow River. I rehearsed behind him, peering into my pocket dictionary, and when I thought I had the word right...
...hours in a driving rain to meet workers in a soccer stadium in Sao Pau lo. He seemed to be drawn deeper into politics. As soon as John Paul finished his greetings, a metalworker took the micro phone, and implored him to support workers as they "break the barrier imposed by the political system that governs us." The Pope called out for social justice. But he added a line that again emerged at the heart of his message. Social justice "cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create...