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...Acid rain is terribly destructive to bronze sculpture. It reduces metallic bronze to blue green copper sulfate and black copper sulfite," explains Marjorie B. Cohn, a Fogg conservator...
Peru's economy began to slide in 1980 under the pressure of a world recession and low prices for the country's copper and lead exports. Belaúnde further undermined the economy by borrowing excessively from other countries and failing to curb money-losing state enterprises. The gross domestic product declined 12% last year, the worst performance in Latin America. Inflation hit 125%, unemployment 8.3% and underemployment 51%. The Peruvian sol declined 130% against the dollar during 1983. The country's foreign debt is $13 billion, about two-thirds of its gross domestic production. Bela...
...high concentrations of ozone and get more rain, which washes chemicals onto the trees. "Most people think of remote mountains as ideal vacation spots that are very clean, but they're not," declares Johnson. Many isolated areas in the mountains of New England have abnormally high levels of copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium. And the Green Mountains of New Hampshire, seemingly pristine, in fact rival big cities when it comes to lead pollution...
That he was, and for him the World Cup circuit stretched out far ahead. As he left Sarajevo for Copper Mountain, Colo., to train for a downhill next week, he had nothing unkind to say about anyone, not even Klammer. But, of course, he did have a breezy last word. "I could be in this game a long time now." -By John Skow...
...second come-on might be called "Kids Disappear!" At Waterville, Vermont's Bolton Valley, Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands in Michigan, and Colorado's Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain, the staff will take youngsters off their parents' hands early in the morning, and some of the resorts will keep them until after the adults have enjoyed a leisurely drinks-and-dinner. Nurseries are nothing new, but they are now much more elaborate. At Copper Mountain, infants from two months to two years are cared for by a pediatric nurse. Older chil dren then move...