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...detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that the oil was still spreading along the bottom at 40-ft. depths, covering more than 5,000 acres offshore and polluting 500 acres of tidal rivers and marshes...
...rivals Duffy in periodic movie marathons (up to four films in a day). But she recalls that as a child, "movies were only something for a rainy day. It wasn't healthy to spend so much time indoors." Instead, her family would often trek from their home in Falmouth, Me., to leftfield in Fenway Park to watch one of Vallely's first heroes: Ted Williams...
...fact, as long as the Colonies have almost no naval forces available, New York is virtually indefensible against strong sea and land attack. Worse, whether it is finally occupied or not, it can easily be destroyed by naval fire, as Falmouth in the Maine District was set ablaze last year and Norfolk, Virginia, was burned down in January. If New York citizens were less notably Loyalist (an estimated two-thirds of the city is owned by Tories), Howe's gunners could reduce the city to ruin...
...Allen, 38, the argumentative hero of Fort Ticonderoga, is giving almost as much trouble to the British as he did when he was commander of the Green Mountain Boys. Seized last year after launching a premature and ill-considered attack on Montreal, Allen was shipped to a castle near Falmouth, England. He was not hanged, apparently because the British feared reprisals. He is now on a British frigate sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer. Word of Allen's fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship...
Located on twelve acres of leased land near Falmouth, the institute focuses most of its attention on a growing scientific concern: that the Green Revolution may be failing. As Todd explains it, the use of pest killers to maintain the revolution's high-yield grains has triggered a vicious cycle: "Soils decline in quality, which in turn makes crops more vulnerable to pests or disease. This creates a need for increasingly large amounts of pesticides and fungicides for agricultural production to be sustained." As a result, says Todd, he shares "the disquieting feeling that we are witnessing the agricultural...