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Ecological Hazard. No scientists are willing to forecast the effects of the oil now spreading seaward from the Argo Merchant. Most believe that if the globs of oil, called oilbergs because most of their mass is below the surface, continue to move east, the damage will be held to a minimum. But shifting winds could still bring the oil ashore, fouling beaches and causing massive ecological damage. The spill has already driven hundreds of sea birds ashore, bedraggled and helpless. The oil could also threaten humpback whales, which migrate through the affected area, and imperil the already endangered gray seals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Is Pouring on Troubled Waters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Neither Dame nor Dixon would hazard a guess on when the UMTA would decide on funding, but several MBTA newsletters have put approval for the grant in April and completion of construction...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: MBTA Proposes Square Renovation | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

Students who sit in the aisles of overcrowded lecture halls during classes violate the state building code and create a fire hazard, the deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department said yesterday...

Author: By Donald Berk, | Title: Fire Dept. to Act Against Overflowing Lecture Halls | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...speak, toward Gary Daterman and begin circling his head. Other moths are continually drawn to the steering wheel of Daterman's auto, his clothing and almost anything he touches. In fact, Daterman has become irresistible to moths during the mating season. Their infatuation with him is a hazard of his job: to devise cunning new forms of biological warfare against insects (TIME cover, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flame to the Moth | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...crowded confines of the racquetball court, beginners need not chase errant shots as tennis players must, and singles, not doubles matches are the rule. The ball comes zinging back like a small cannon ball, and an opponent's 18-in. stringed racquet can be a hazard, often inflicting racquetball's most distinctive mark-waffle-face. It is hell in a very small place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Latest Racquet | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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