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...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
...Lowenstein and the majority of the "Dump-Nixon" people, the primary issue is still the war in Southeast Asia. "He's making Johnson look retroactively very credible, which is an extraordinary achievement when you think about it," Lowenstein says of Nixon. Lowenstein's view of peace through discussion are dim, considering the American position: "I supported negotiations when they started in 1968," he says. "But the pre-condition in 1968 was that Theiu and Ky had to stay in power. The negotiations seem to depend on the military defeat of the people we're negotiating with...
Speculators were hurt more by Clarkson's loss on Saturday than by the Big Red's defeat in the consolation game. "I made plans to dump my tickets on Clarkson and felt okay at the Garden." one Cornell student said. "But when I heard about B. U. going. I knew I was back in the market again...
...York Democrat, who initiated the Dump Johnson movement in 1968 but was defeated last November in his bid for a second House term when his Long Island district was gerrymandered, reminded an audience of under 60 in Lowell Lecture Hall that the 1972 struggle will be easier than that of 1968 for two reasons...
...Venice is symptomatic of a widespread malaise: much of Italy has become an environmental disaster area. About 85% of the country's 5,000-mile shoreline is polluted by oil spills and industrial wastes, plus the vinyl bags in which Italians wrap their garbage and then blithely dump it, littering the land and the once lovely beaches. Moreover, 80% of Italy's coastal cities have no sewage-treatment facilities. Even Milan, Italy's second largest city, has no such plant. Most wastes-industrial as well as human-are simply dumped into local rivers, which then strew filth...