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For sheer theatricality, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's passing from the presidency in France rivaled King Richard II's dethronement in Shakespeare's play. In a carefully staged farewell address to the nation on television last week, the defeated President seemed to concede that...
The angiogram is still the most important diagnostic tool, but now doctors also have an array of safe, "noninvasive" tests at their disposal. Among them:
Spurred by recent environmental legislation forbidding the outdoor combustion of most garbage, city officials and private entrepreneurs have established networks for collecting, transporting and dumping waste. With a small group of corporations springing up to handle the waste disposal, and officials in many cities perfectly willing to hand them the...
Environmental experts also fear the possibility of dangerous emissions into the atmosphere from such conversion plants. The bottom-line expense of conversion and the accessory cost of correcting corrosion and emission problems make solid-waste disposal uneconomical when compared with the landfill alternative.
As in the rest of the nation's environmental picture, the future of garbage disposal and conversion remains clouded, but not with the smoke of burning trash.