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Sometimes one commits a rant to paper. That is almost always a mistake. A rant should be transient. It should blow away like sudden, violent weather...
Today Beulah is a town in crisis. Great Plains has lost much of its Government backing. Moreover, its synthetic fuel is uneconomical because the price of imported oil is falling. The plant may be shuttered within a month, dealing a devastating blow to the community, the state of North Dakota and the future of synthetic fuels. Great Plains has an annual payroll of $36 million, employing 973 people and generating more than 5,000 additional jobs in the area. Says Cynthia Lynk, executive director of Beulah's Chamber of Commerce: "If the plant closes, we'll have businesses shutting down...
Last week a U.S. Court of Appeals, ruling in favor of the conservationists, decreed that within 90 days the Government must order Japan to reduce its catch of fish in American waters by 50%. That would be a serious economic blow to the Japanese, who took in roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million metric tons of fish caught by foreigners off U.S. shores last year. The Administration, not eager to rock its relations with Japan, may ask the Court of Appeals for a rehearing of the case and could possibly take the issue to the Supreme Court. The outcome...
...turned baseball commissioner, who publicly positioned himself as the fans' representative. Or the sheer cost of the walkout: on average, $2,000 a day in salary per athlete, $1.17 million a day in revenue per owner. In any case, the players had barely finished packing up their gloves and blow-dryers to head home last week when word filtered out that the strike was over. By Thursday, two days after the lights had gone out at ball parks across the country, the cracking bats and beery roar of major-league baseball again filled the muggy August air. Boston Bartender Michael...
Self-examination for signs of skin cancer is simple, requiring little more than a full-length mirror, a hand mirror to see one's back and a blow-dryer to examine the scalp. "The ability of people to detect skin cancers is tremendous if they're motivated," observes Dr. Robert Friedman of N.Y.U. Indeed, many newly motivated Americans went scurrying to dermatologists last week, just as Reagan's colon cancer sent them to gastroenterologists. "We had five patients walk in off the streets who identified their own basal-cell carcinomas," says Friedman. "Four of them were right." --By Claudia Wallis...