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...district also includes Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
...amount of food taken from the sea has multiplied more than tenfold, a rate in excess of global population growth. But the annual world catch-now about 60 million metric tons-cannot continue growing indefinitely. In fact, such sea staples as California sardines, Northwest Pacific salmon and Barents Sea cod -not to mention the beleaguered whale -are already rapidly dwindling. Contrary to the myth, Fisheries Biologist William Ricker recently warned, in a National Academy of Sciences report, the sea is not "a limitless reservoir of food energy...
...joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house of correction...
...eschewing a fine summer day and a free performance by the cast of Hair less than a mile away. Yet they were clearly bored by a peace candidate who-not illogically from his point of view-discussed the problems of the fishing industry in a district that includes Cape Cod...
...pessimism of the ecologists was tempered by a rosy view of the oceans' potential. Scientist John P. Craven, lately of M.I.T., predicted that there will be airports floating on the seas by 1980. "and eventually these airports would become cities that would summer off Cape Cod and winter off Florida." Pardo went one step farther: "In future generations, a big percentage of the world's population will live in cities under the seas...