Word: crisises
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Congress last year created a $30 million emergency fund for AIDS patients who were unable to afford the high cost (about $8,000 a year) of AZT, the only FDA-approved drug known to prolong their lives. It did so on the unusual condition that the measure's sponsors would...
That is a simple but accurate description of a situation approaching the crisis stage throughout the U.S. The affluent, fast-paced, throwaway American culture is producing trash on a stupendous scale. Between 1960 and 1986, the amount of American garbage grew 80%, from 87.5 million tons to 157.7 million tons...
Technology may help ease the looming crisis. One of the most troublesome elements in the garbage stream is the soaring use of plastic, which is difficult to burn or recycle and, because it is not biodegradable, will clog landfills for centuries. Early efforts to produce plastics that decay were less...
But in large part, the garbage crisis is a cultural crisis. The development of a throwaway, convenience culture helped create this mess; a real solution may require cultural change. For example, more than 20% of U.S. garbage comprises grass clippings and leaves stuffed into plastic bags and left for collection...
The medical crisis comes of legal age as the growing number of people tarnished by the AIDS antibody test seek fair treatment.