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Shaw is a soft-spoken, serious, yet sunny person, and though he is by no means a politician, he has demonstrated a sharp knowledge of the city's problems. He has a lawyer's feeling for facts and is an extremely able speaker. His only drawback seems to be a remoteness from the Cambridge neighborhoods...
...raised by the Transamazonia is its effect on the ecology of the region. Scientists have worried about the effect upon world climate when the entire rain forest is cut. According to present development plans, that will probably be an accomplished fact by the middle of the next century. Another drawback is that the topsoil of the Amazon region is thin, and the jungle, contrary to popular belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away...
...short run, Wilson may achieve his objectives. But in the longer term, his wriggling over Britain's most important undertaking in decades should come back to haunt him. He is a man who has always had a problem with credibility-a drawback that is not likely to be diminished this week when his strikingly self-serving political memoirs are published. Given the success of the Tory government's latest reflationary mini-budget (see BUSINESS) and a relatively painless entry into Europe, Wilson might be remembered only as the man who sacrificed a central principle for short-term gain...
...cited the five to six-year time lag between materials contained in the articles and the date of publication as a major drawback in the government's claim to a violation of national security...
...Another drawback of the Vernon reactor is its operational requirement to release low-level radioactive liquid and gaseous wastes from time to time. The AEC contends that these wastes are harmless. But a recent paper has shown remarkable correlation between changes in infant mortality and radioactive gaseous discharges in Illinois in the area surrounding the Dresden No. 1 power station (a BWR of one-third the capacity of Vernon) over the past ten years. Dresden's annual effluents ranged from 34,860 to 800,000 curies from...