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...wonders in the deep. So much for piety afloat and a reasonable profit through the ages. Trouble is these days, according to Noel Mostert, a South African-born shipping writer, more than half the business done upon great waters is carried in the bellies of a new breed of sea monster that threatens not only the wonders of the deep but the teeming life of whole oceans. The monsters are V.L.C.C.s and U.L.C.C.s (for very large and ultra-large crude carriers), huge oil tankers that already range from 200,000 tons burden up toward 500,000 tons. Such ships...
...Lionel Hudson, who praises it for its intelligence and highly developed senses of sight, smell and hearing. Hudson advocates domesticating the dingo and putting it to useful work-tracking down lost people and criminals or sniffing out drugs in baggage. In Victoria, a group is seeking government permission to breed and show the species...
...registered voters stayed home, there were some noteworthy trends. In the Northeast, the old Democratic coalition of blue-collar ethnics, white-collar liberals and minorities helped elect three Governors: Hugh Carey in New York, Ella Grasso in Connecticut and Michael S. Dukakis in Massachusetts. In the South, a new breed of moderate Democrats ended a decade of growth by Republicans. In the Midwest, big Democratic victories for state offices made it definite that formerly overwhelmingly Republican bastions like Iowa are now two-party states and states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois are becoming Democratic strongholds...
...release rains over parched fields. But the technique is still primitive and it raises serious political and ecological questions: if rain makers manage to bring water to one region will they be depriving another-perhaps in a neighboring country? The skilled plant breeders who created the Green Revolution can breed tougher grains to meet changes of climate. But these will take time to perfect, and their use will be limited unless science makes greater progress in long-range weather forecasting. Otherwise, farmers will not know which of the new seeds to plant. Unfortunately, even the best long-range weather predictions...
...Times reporter nodded as two Princeton seniors told him proudly that applications to the eating clubs had gone up steadily over the past two years. A member of the Princeton class of '71 joined the conversation to commend the "new breed" of students--not like the grubby, noisy activists of his day, he noted. "I think it's good thing that students are turning back to study and to introspection, that they're thinking about things again," he declared, as the crowd pressed eagerly around the gambling tables, apparently thinking very intently about what number would come up next...