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Baverstock will begin a rehabilitation program in three months, and plans to spend next summer in California working out with sophomores Brian Enge and Jeremy Amen. Since Baverstock spent last spring in New Zealand, he will be eligible to return to the 1990 squad as a secondsemester senior...
...were made mandatory under the Endangered Species Act, the shrimpers protested by blockading shipping channels along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher backed off, allowing shrimpers to limit trawling times instead of using TEDs. Prompted by infuriated environmentalists, a federal court last week ordered Mosbacher to begin enforcing the TED requirement. Shrimpers caught with TED-less nets could face fines of up to $50,000 if their nets contain a dead sea turtle...
...overburdened by carbon dioxide from the cars and factories of industrial nations, the torching of the Amazon could magnify the greenhouse effect -- the trapping of heat by atmospheric CO2. No one knows just what impact the buildup of CO2 will have, but some scientists fear that the globe will begin to warm up, bringing on wrenching climatic changes...
...rain forest disappears, the process will begin at its edges, in places such as Acre and Rondonia. While the Amazon forest as a whole generates roughly half of its own moisture, the percentage is much higher in these western states, far from the Atlantic. This means that deforestation is likely to have a more dramatic impact on the climate in the west than it would in the east. "Imagine the effects of a dry season extended by two months," says Fearnside. The process of deforestation could become self-perpetuating as heat, drying and wind cause the trees...
...list, alas, is long. Begin with public officials who have exploited the issue for 20 years, advocating phony feel-good nostrums like the current fad for drug testing in the workplace, as if mid-level bureaucrats were society's prime offenders. Joining the politicians in the dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between...