Word: coverer
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Despite the overwhelming evidence of coastal pollution, cleaning up the damage, except in a few scattered communities, has a fairly low political priority. One reason: most people assume that the vast oceans, which cover more than 70% of the world's surface, have an inexhaustible capacity to neutralize contaminants, by either absorbing them or letting them settle harmlessly to the sediment miles below the surface. "People think 'Out of sight, out of mind,' " says Richard Curry, an oceanographer at Florida's Biscayne National Park. The popular assumption that oceans will in effect heal themselves may carry some truth, but scientists...
...Dressing Room 5 of the Omni Coliseum, Zirinsky and Bradley don their battle gear: battery packs around their waists, headsets and microphones. They have spent the evening prowling the floor stalking stories. Bradley agreed to cover the convention only on condition that Zirinsky be his producer. "She's got a good nose for news," he says, "and she's fun to be with...
While you were out . . . The convention bought the cover-up, but in fact it was Dukakis Campaign Manager Susan Estrich, not Dukakis First Friend Paul Brountas, who caused the notorious phone-call-that-missed. When Lloyd Bentsen was picked as the vice-presidential nominee, Brountas gave Estrich Jackson's telephone number and the responsibility for calling with the news before Jackson left his Cincinnati hotel room for the airport. Seems that it somehow slipped her mind. When Dukakis explained to reporters that his campaign manager had not given him the number, Brountas realized Estrich would be wounded and decided...
...Cover: Illustration by Don Ivan Punchatz
...COVER: The world' s oceans face a growing threat from man- made pollution...