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Scarce resources and increasing dependence on foreign oil are only part of the reason to push for fuel conservation. Scientists are increasingly ) convinced that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect, a potentially dangerous warming of the globe caused by carbon dioxide and other exhaust gases. Unless the growth of fuel consumption is slowed dramatically or nonfossil energy sources, including solar and nuclear, are expanded rapidly, the world could face climatic changes leading to widespread flooding and famine...
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (NBC, April 16-18, 9 p.m. EDT). Phileas Fogg, that globe-trotting Victorian gent, is back in a remake of the Oscar-winning 1956 film based on Jules Verne's novel. Pierce Brosnan, Lee Remick and Peter Ustinov head the proverbial all-star cast...
...spectacle of Gorbachev in Cuba was an instructive one, more symbolic than substantive. Yet his message there echoed far more loudly in such far- flung corners of the globe as Poland and Kampuchea, where stunning events gave real meaning to Moscow's "new thinking...
...evidence, Frank mentioned a poll of voters in his congressional district taken shortly after his public declaration of his homosexuality in a 1987 Boston Globe interview...
...board first became involved in development in 1986 when it constructed low-income housing on land donated by the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. At that time, The Boston Globe reported that the $800,000 gift was connected to a city decision to approve a new parking garage for the hospital...