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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People are moving to smaller towns and cities [Sept. 1] in record numbers seeking not only intimacy and peace, but a place where their actions count. They are fed up with ineffectual, unresponsive Big Government interfering with their lives and no longer able to solve the problems it has created...
Small-town life produces achievers. A large proportion of the men and women in Who's Who came out of small towns. Count...
Although the UMass women's varsity tennis team, undefeated in four previous matches, was better prepared for the winds that gusted across Soldiers Field yesterday than the as yet untested Harvard squad, COACH Peter Felske's charges proved that depth and talent count most under any conditions and defeated the Minutemen...
...interventions in the natural order, none is accelerating quite so alarmingly as the creation of chemical compounds. Through their genius, modern alchemists brew as many as 1,000 new concoctions each year in the U.S. alone. At last count, nearly 50,000 chemicals were on the market. Many have been an undeniable boon to mankind, mitigating pain and disease, prolonging life for millions and expanding the economy in myriad ways by stimulating the creation of new products. There is, however, a price to pay for an industrial society that has come to rely so heavily on chemicals: almost...
...accurate count of all the toxic-waste dumps is possible. Many reveal themselves only when a flash flood or gradual erosion exposes rusting and cracking drums. Searching for clandestine sites, some 100 EPA agents are tracking down reports of midnight dumping, or seeking out acrid odors permeating wooded acres or strange colors staining rivers and streams. So far, the EPA estimates that there are some 50,000 sites where chemicals have been dumped. The EPA believes that 2,000 of these dumps may pose serious health hazards...