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NEEDLESS PROJECTS. Starting with its battle against the Cross-Florida Barge Canal, which President Nixon himself stopped (TIME, Feb. 1), E.D.F. has brought seven major suits against federal construction projects. Most of them are designed to halt dams proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the environmental lawyers...
Dammed Strait. By far the most controversial atomic scheme proposed by Soviet planners is the damming of the Bering Strait, the 55-mile-wide stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. "This would be highly beneficial for Siberia," according to Seaborg, "because the cold Arctic waters bathing the eastern coast...
Now, as it celebrates the anniversary of its freedom, the country is at peace. The copper mines of Katanga are working at full capacity. At Inga Rapids, a project to begin damming the Congo River is under way at last. Its first stage, a 150-megawatt dam, will be finished...
"We've been expanding faster than we know how to handle it--and so we get smog and famines and ugliness. Growth for its own sake has somehow been confused with progress," Brower tells his audiences. And then, since the slogans are easy to ignore, he recites a list of...
In the eight years he spent as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Sir Paul Chambers, 63, shook up Britain's largest private company from the front office to the production line. He turned a stodgy, Commonwealth-oriented company into a lean operation with new muscle to flex on...