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While welfare pays her monthly rent of $92.10, she says that the additional $128 she receives twice a month barely allows for the necessities, much less such luxuries as a telephone, radio, TV or vacuum cleaner...
...honors that Princeton can bestow on an alumnus-went this year to the youngest recipient in history. Because, said President Robert F. Goheen, from his "determined and persistent efforts we may look forward to more safety in our mines, highways and factories, less explosive accidents in our gas pipelines, cleaner meat and poultry on our tables, and broader public representation in the management of large public corporations," the $1,500 prize was awarded to 38-year-old Ralph Nader...
...last year to enact a 14-point program of reforms. Members of Congress introduced a score of bills of their own to regulate everything from strip mining to the location of power plants. Yet not a single major piece of environmental legislation passed both houses. While everybody wanted a cleaner America, it appeared, not everybody was ready to pay for it, at least not when the economy was lagging...
Enter the white amur, which operates like a biological vacuum cleaner, eating up to four times its own weight in algae every day. In 1963 the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries imported some amurs from Malaysia, later turned 70 of them over to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for study. Outlets were carefully blocked with wire mesh to prevent any from escaping. Still, accidents will happen, and last spring Arkansas biologists found a few white amurs in the White River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Since eight years of research had disclosed no faults in the amur...
...cent which most feels the effects of an irresponsible foreign policy, an unfair tax structure, in adequate allocation of our resources for public services like schools, health care and public transportation, and the irresponsibility of private corporations which, when presented with a choice between higher profits and a cleaner environment or better products, have all too often chosen the former...