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These developments are slowly helping to raise the standard of living throughout the Caribbean basin, with its exploding population of nearly 200 million, but the price has been high. Each new hotel or factory takes away a bit of jungle, sometimes replacing valuable mangrove, whose matted roots provide shelter and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting Blight in Paradise | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

At midweek the "fresh start" fizzled. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer, who heads one of the six congressional panels investigating the agency, charged that Hernandez personally intervened to allow Dow Chemical Co. to edit a July 1981 agency report about dioxin contamination of two rivers and a bay near its Midland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down in the Dumps at EPA | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Nor was Hubbard a World War II hero who miraculously cured himself of nearly fatal combat wounds, as he claimed. Hubbard never saw combat. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he was granted 40% disability pay for arthritis, bursitis and conjunctivitis. He continued to collect this pay long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystery of the Vanished Ruler | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

At Dunbar High School in Fort Myers, Fla., he was a triple threat: in football, an all-state wide receiver; in basketball, an all-conference playmaking guard; in track and field, a state champion in the 440-yd. run. An honors student, he went on to Edison Community College in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: I Can't Stop Crying, Doug McCray | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

Chatwin interrupts this sibling harmony with England's entry into World War 1. The farm is not big enough to warrant service exemptions for both of them. Their father explains to the local authorities "how his sons were not two persons, but one," to no avail. Benjamin is inducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Identical Twins, Uncommon Men | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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