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Between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mobile, one of the world's most extensive petrochemical complexes attracts the heaviest concentration of oil-tanker traffic off any U.S. coast. The Exxon Valdez disaster, which dumped 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaskan waters in March 1989 should have jolted the U.S. -- and the Gulf States in particular -- into preparations for coping with such devastating spills. Just how dismally they have failed was demonstrated last week when fires and explosions wracked the 886-ft. Mega Borg for seven days, 60 miles off Galveston. For a time the convulsions threatened to disgorge...
...events. Says Vogt: "There are proposals pending to build gravity-wave observatories in Europe and Australia, and we're hoping to put together an international network." That will take time, and some of the most important discoveries lie years in the future. But just as Galileo did with his crude telescope in the early 1600s, the first generation of gravity-wave astronomers will undoubtedly learn things right away that will dramatically enrich science's understanding of the universe...
...electoral-reform movement emerged after Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's national-unity government collapsed last March in bitter disagreement over the peace process. Since then, the two main blocs and the handful of small religious parties that hold the balance of power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...
That has always been the role of art: to shock, not just to ratify the prejudices of the generation in power. And no jolt is greater than the shock of the new. Original styles almost always look crude and excessive: Picasso's in painting ("My three-year-old could draw better!"), Brando's in acting ("He's got marbles in his mouth!"), Elvis' in music ("Photograph him from the waist up!"), Bruce's in comedy ("Book him!"). In their first outrageousness, these artists seemed to signal the end of the world; instead, they were heralding a new one. "A creator...
Mass events are crude instruments, useful for delivering slogans and chants but not well suited to deciding subtle issues that confront environmental converts who are trying to translate their concerns into practice. Whether people should buy biodegradable or recyclable plastics or switch from disposable to cloth diapers will not be settled on April...