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...Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, chairman of the House Interior Committee, that would have protected 127.5 million acres, about one-third of Alaska's land, an area larger than California and Maine combined. The bill was favored by many environmentalists, but it was blocked by Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, who wanted to ensure future development in his state...
Last summer the Senate offered a compromise bill, sponsored chiefly by Democrats Henry Jackson of Washington and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Jackson declared: "The bill is balanced, the product of bipartisan effort. All the groups are a little bit mad, which proves that we were honest judges." Indeed, Gravel tried to filibuster the bill, but his Senate colleagues passed a cloture vote that shut off debate. When the bill passed, Jackson sent it along to the House with the warning: "It's that or nothing." Angered by what they considered to be strong-arm tactics, Udall and his supporters...
Skid control comes first, performed by going through a slalom course on an inch of loose gravel. The trick is to accelerate and brake and countersteer the car as the rear end skids violently. You must use the skid. It's like driving on ice. The best way to stop a car is to brake steadily and very hard, not pump the brakes as many people believe. Next comes emergency braking and swerving to avoid objects at high speeds. Each student is ordered to drive absolutely flat out toward a sharp curve until the last possible second. Just when...
...about pollution damage be something that most Americans probably believe to be safely beyond the reach of contamination: ground water. This is water that lies buried from a stretches feet to a half mile or more beneath the land's surface in stretches of permeable rock, sand and gravel known as aquifers. In the U.S. there is five times as much water in such subterranean reservoirs as flows through all its surface lakes, streams and rivers in a year. While most ground water is believed to remain pure, concern is rising because it is one of nature...
...gold rush is even attracting miners with pick and pan. Some 654 small mining claims were filed in California last month, and as many as 100,000 part-time prospectors now sift through the gravel beds of streams and rivers looking for nuggets that the Forty-Niners left behind. Big companies are having luck but individual miners say that pickings are slim...