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...Governor Thomas Kean signed a law requiring the separation from other trash of reusable material so it can be recycled. The new law could reduce by 25% the 10 million tons of refuse dumped annually in the state's landfills. "Without further action," said Kean, "New Jersey could actually choke on its own garbage." Unless other governments take similar innovative steps, the country can expect more big stinks like the voyage of the Mobro...
...risk to his family's health. Pollution is so bad in Mexico City (pop. 18 million) that birds regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there is a thermal inversion in which a whole lot of people die, the government will be blamed and there could be a violent response...
...enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...
...even know all the names. I knew Walter Payton's, of course. But I had to be introduced to (Defensive End) Dan Hampton." For turning the wrong way on a hand-off and missing an open receiver in the end zone, Flutie was toasted by his teammates with choke signs all around. But the spirit was amazingly warm. "When I first came into the huddle, everyone's head kind of popped up, and they all smiled as if to say, 'Here you go, kid.' " Since breaking his collarbone 17 months ago in the New Jersey Generals' final spring, Flutie...
...hope to return to the Fenway press box. My grades may suffer and I may go only to see my team choke as they have since 1918. But to be at Fenway from pre-game to game time to lights out, to watch sports writers change from joking critics to intense bearers of good or bad news, to possibly witness the transformation of my favorite team from chokers to world champions is well worth...