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...true that Envirolink shows up among the search engine's top-rated enviro websites. But the conservative American Land Rights Association seems to think yes, and offers a Web address www.lycos.com at which Lycos may be thanked for right thinking. What's a Web crawler to believe? Well, for one thing, that Japanese car, motorcycle and snowmobile manufacturers--the power here is quite real, not virtual--are trying, through Blue Ribbon magazine and its parent, Blue Ribbon Coalition, to defeat U.S. environmental policy...
...fatal blast occurred at 6:45 p.m. and shot flames into the air, sending four injured persons--Com Electric employees John Collins, Joe Crawler and Jim Cardenelli and a police officer whose name was not released--to Mass. General Hospital...
Margot Storsteen of NOW demonstrated a defense position called the "anti-crawler line...
Other, more expensive tactics are root plowing (a Caterpillar dragging a flat steel blade cuts off the roots beneath the surface) and tree dozing (a crawler tractor with a tree bit on the front uproots each tree). Tree dozing worked so well on John Cargile's ranch at Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic...
...shuttle that is to orbit at speeds up to 17,500 m.p.h. was trundled to its lift off site on a massive crawler-tractor that took 7½ hours to creep the 3½ miles from the Kennedy Space Center's immense Vehicle Assembly Building. NASA's delight could be detected as far away as Houston. There, a technician watching the proceedings on television at the Johnson Space Center exclaimed what many felt: "Hey! This is for real! We're back to launching birds again." It has been a long time between shots...