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Much of the peninsula was once a great natural sponge of swamps, marshes and flood land that trapped and filtered fresh water. But to clear the way for development, as well as to control floods, these wetlands have been largely drained away. This has not only threatened the quality of surface water but also cut off its flow into underlying aquifers, the porous rock formations that serve as subterranean reservoirs...
Under current zoning laws, one house is permitted on five acres. But government scientists have urged raising the zoning requirement to one house on 40 acres. They argue that if the population is allowed to rise, the residents will clamor for flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
...program will beef up retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week or less. The proposals were immediately dismissed by opposition Labor Party leaders as trying to "stem a flood tide with a sandbag...
...flood of new money and the well-known success stories have created intense competition to find and fund new ventures. "Five years ago, we could take a month to study a company," says Bert McMurtry of California's Technology Venture Investors. "Now we have to be prepared to do the work in a couple of weeks." No longer can a financier sit in his office and wait for businessmen to come to him. Some regularly stroll around new industrial parks and poke their heads through doors to look for companies that have barely had time to hang...
Indeed, no one questions that American immigration policy has been notoriously lax. Although the U.S. welcomes 270,000 legal immigrants yearly, at the President's discretion a flood of Cuban and Haitian refugees swelled that number to more than 800,000 last year. An additional 500,000 to 1 million entered the U.S. illegally, most of them along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico...