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...Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the U.S. still lacks the ability to cope speedily with such disasters. That shortcoming was dramatically illustrated last week when a Greek tanker crashed into three oil barges in the Houston Ship Channel near Galveston. Though Houston handles more crude oil than any other U.S. port, no fast-response cleanup team is stationed in Texas. By the time emergency crews from along the Gulf Coast arrived, 500,000 gal. of crude had leaked into the relatively shallow Galveston Bay, threatening shrimp, oysters, crabs and birds...
After the accident Congress passed a bill that had been languishing for years until the Alaskan catastrophe. Among other provisions, it establishes a $1 billion oil-cleanup fund and sets up 10 quick-response teams, one in each Coast Guard district. The action came too late for Galveston...
...matter what the setting or the destination, there is a special drama about a train. The rules of the everyday are suspended, moments are easily shared. Observes Kenan Lott, operations manager of the Houston-to-Galveston Texas Limited: "People get on board thinking that two hours will be too long. But by the time they get off, they're old friends...
...waters in March 1989 should have jolted the U.S. -- and the Gulf States in particular -- into preparations for coping with such devastating spills. Just how dismally they have failed was demonstrated last week when fires and explosions wracked the 886-ft. Mega Borg for seven days, 60 miles off Galveston. For a time the convulsions threatened to disgorge 38 million gal. of oil toward the Texas coast...
...adoptive parents are saddled with an unforeseen defect, who should shoulder the load? Most experts put the onus on the adoptive parents. "Families, having decided to do an adoption, assume a certain risk," says Professor William Winslade of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. "If it is an incredibly difficult burden, it seems unfair not to give parents, who have provided the benefit to society by making the adoption, some special help. But I don't think the burden should be totally given back to the state either. Parents adopt because they want the joys -- and the sorrows...