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...gasoline -- which costs about $3.75 per gal. throughout Europe -- Ross Perot was right. Phase in a 50 cents tax over five years, and you raise $50 billion a year. But it's voluntary, because, to avoid that tax, one need only drive more efficiently -- moving, five years from now, to a car that gets 28 m.p.g. instead of 20. (Not to mention taking the train, tuning the engine, or even choosing to live closer to work.) Side benefits: less pollution and a lower trade deficit...
...special touch of hilarity to his performance as the love-stricken boy composer Adam Adam. The character is a sweetly doleful soul, but with a volatility that Javerbaum never quite conveys. This odd harmony of personalities is rounded out with an even-handed performance by Chris Scully as Alex Gal, Turai's very American collaborator...
Nutrition and hygiene must also be imported. The military will have to desalinate or purify every drop of water drunk by troops. Water consumption for a 16,000-member division is roughly 300,000 gal. daily. The troops have been immunized for a wide range of diseases, including yellow fever and typhoid, and truck-mounted pesticide sprayers are being brought in to do battle against flies and mosquitoes...
...TANKER AEGEAN SEA NEVER MADE PORT. Loaded with nearly 24 million gal. of North Sea crude, struggling in heavy seas, the Greek-registered vessel foundered on rocks near the entrance to the Spanish port of La Coruna and began leaking from at least two of its nine tanks. As a series of explosions tore through the ship, sinking its bow and adding to the sludgy deluge, rescuers evacuated all of the 29-member crew by helicopter. The accident occurred at almost the exact spot along the northwest shore, nicknamed the "Coast of Death" for its toll on sea traffic over...
What little real cleanup has already taken place has proved astronomically expensive. Moving 10.5 million gal. of toxic liquids and 500,000 cu. yds. of contaminated soil from one site at the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado cost $32 million; cleaning up the whole base is likely to top $1.5 billion. Digging out a single landfill the size of a tennis court at Norfolk cost $18 million, and there are 21 other identified sites. Removing 600 drums of buried toxic wastes at Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire cost $22 million. "We are only on the threshold...