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Actually, the biosphere becomes a problem only when humans get involved. In Brazil the Amazon rain forest, which once covered 3 million sq. mi., has been slashed by an estimated 10% to 15% as the region has been developed for mining and agriculture; an additional 20% has been seriously disturbed. When the downed trees are burned or rot, CO2 and other greenhouse gases are released. The same kind of deforestation in Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, say experts, may already be helping to make the world warmer...
SOUTHBORO--Dr. Ronald D. Hunt, director of Harvard's New England Primate Center, smiles as his visitors confess to missing a turn on the tortuous back roads of Southboro--a New England town just over a half-hour's drive from Boston. Secluded in Harvard's 140 acres of forest, behind a sign advertising the Harvard Southboro Campus, the primate center is easy to pass. While drop-in visitors are not welcome, the Center is at times willing to give tours of the facilities...
...illegal sales. The report tells how the Soviets had tempted Toshiba once before, during the mid-1970s, with an offer to buy advanced milling machines. Toshiba dutifully refused at that time, but then watched in frustration as a rival company, a now defunct French firm called Ratier- Forest, apparently filled the order instead. (French authorities are investigating that transaction...
...living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool in his kitchen...
...decision to put the suspects in Louvain outraged convicts at other Belgian prisons. Hundreds of inmates hurled stones and set fires at the overcrowded Forest and St. Gilles jails in Brussels. If convicted, the English fans could each be sentenced to ten years in prison...