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Despite the interior excitement and free-spending atmosphere, much of Atlantic City remains pocked with urban blight and decay. Worse, state officials are concerned about the infiltration of organized crime into the business and last week unsealed an indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent...
...uniquely modern, postindustrial blight, acid rain is as widespread as the winds that disperse it. In the northeast U.S. and in Canada and northern Europe, it is reducing lakes, rivers and ponds to eerily crystalline, lifeless bodies of water, killing off everything from indigenous fish stocks to microscopic vegetation. It is suspected of spiriting away mineral nutrients from the soil on which forests thrive. Its corrosive assault on buildings and water systems costs millions of dollars annually. It may also pose a substantial threat to human health, principally by contaminating public drinking water. Says Canada's Minister...
...next year. But there is plenty of blame to go around: in more than a few states, politicians of both parties framed their current budgets with purposeful optimism rather than raise taxes or cut social spending in an election year. The results are just now emerging, and the economic blight is still spreading. Says Steven Gold, an analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures: "My guess is that by the end of this fiscal year, as many as 40 states will have to trim spending or raise taxes...
...extra-long exposures in the electron beams or are stained to improve contrast, their structure becomes distorted. Klug overcame this major obstacle by manipulating the images mathematically with the help of a computer. Among the viral structures discovered by his new method was that of a common plant blight: the tobacco mosaic virus, a tiny rod-shaped particle consisting of a single-stranded coil of RNA surrounded by a cover of protein that resembles a stack of discs...
...Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...