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Hoping to avoid the poster and graffiti pollution that plagued neighboring Portugal after the 1974 revolution, government officials erected more than 900 billboards throughout the capital with such mottos as "Play clean, don't paint the city." The government itself put up thousands of posters exhorting voters to "Think, analyze and choose" and "Democracy is among other things the acceptance of political pluralism...
...people of the world. Presented this year by Mostafa Kamal Tolba, an Egyptian microbiologist who is executive director of the U.N.'s Environment Program, the 15-page document acknowledges that there are some environmental success stories -in efforts to cut down oil pollution of the seas, clean up rivers, safeguard certain species of wildlife and prevent the misuse of pesticides. But the report focuses on four areas in which man's activities are proving hazardous to the environment and to life itself...
...dramatically as living standards rise, especially in Third World countries. Food shortages will fade as production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because we do not consider that people 'own' clean air, clean water, 'quiet' and so on, we cannot easily extract payment from people who use them by polluting them. Hence, the costs of pollution are not usually borne by those that are responsible for the pollution, but instead by the victims." First step toward a solution: more...
Charleston's clean and narrow streets, cloistered gardens and the pastel colors of its colonial houses readily ratify Menotti's sense of what makes a good set. As the twelve-day festival began last week, the question was whether the exquisitely languid dowager city would prove a worthy audience...
Lavish Gym. Class crackles in the clean, conditioned air at Dr. Kenneth Cooper's $2 million Aerobics Center, a lavishly renovated antebellum mansion in north Dallas. The center is a gym. and people sweat there, but the locker rooms are cozy with rust-colored carpet, and their smell is more Brut than Ben Gay. Cooper is the author of Aerobics, the exerciser's Old Testament, The New Aerobics, and two other books about the exercise system he developed while he worked as a health researcher for the Air Force...