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...perhaps the biggest goal of the season. It happened on a night when Vermont outplayed the Crimson for two periods. When it looked as if Harvard would lose its first game of the season...
...BIGGEST BEEF Considered a villain by anticholesterol forces, beef has taken a drubbing in sales in recent years. Now, thanks in part to a diligent advertising campaign ("beef: real food for real people") and undoubtedly to the natural longing for this most American of meats, sales are increasing in many parts of the country, in some areas as much as 20%. But many butchers bow to the times and trim all visible gristle...
...Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the cost of protecting developed coastal areas could reach $111 billion. Southern Louisiana, which is losing land to the Gulf of Mexico at the alarming rate of one acre every 16 minutes, has already drawn up an ambitious mix of programs. In the biggest project, a $24 million pumping station would divert millions of gallons of silt-rich Mississippi River water onto the coastline to help stop saltwater intrusion and to supply sediment that will build up the eroding land. At least one parish is considering plans for a backstop dike to give residents time...
That is a plea the U.S. should take seriously, by easing restrictions on the export of industrial technology to the Soviets. Unfortunately, the biggest barrier to such shipments is not export controls but the lack of hard currency. The U.S. cannot finance the Soviet drive to conserve energy and control pollution, but America should offer as much technical assistance as possible. The Soviets seem to be sincerely determined to clean up their act, and the U.S. should help...
...made significant strides in pollution control and energy conservation during the past 15 years, but the country remains the world's biggest user of natural resources and a major despoiler of the global environment. Because of the size of its economy, the U.S. consumes one-fourth of the world's energy each year. Yet, for a given amount of energy, the U.S. produces less than half as much economic output as Japan and West Germany. Meanwhile, the commitment to reduce pollution has flagged. Although the U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the global population, it generates...