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...since 1941, most of the Mono Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb...
...with the automobile. By a vote of 10 to 2, the directors of the south coast air- quality-management district, a regional agency with authority over Los Angeles, last week adopted a sweeping 20-year antipollution plan. It will not only drastically curtail automobile use in the Los Angeles basin but also convert virtually all vehicles to the use of nonpolluting fuels by 2009. "The public is ready for change," declares Jim Lents, executive officer of the management district. "This plan signals the beginning of that process...
Congressman Wilbur Mills, who starred with stripper Fanne Fox at the Tidal Basin in 1974, is a recent prodigal of drink. Many others preceded him. John Quincy Adams complained mightily about House Speaker Henry Clay's roaring drunks abroad in 1814, when they were there for the Treaty of Ghent, ending...
Polsky: "I've had a couple of brushes with death but nothing that a professional quotester can't handle. I remember one time I was giving a lecture in the Tarrin basin, a region in Western China, when all of a sudden I sensed the presence of a negative energy flow. Sure enough, it was one those Yalies. And let's just say, my bulldog hide jacket sure takes the bite out of winter...
...weather experts point out that there are no records of back-to-back nationwide droughts. In Ohio and Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the snowpacks of the Rockies, the grim dryness seems at last to have been broken. But in the Missouri River basin and the Pacific Northwest and along parts of the East Coast, the debilitating moisture deficits remain...