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Seabrook, New Hampshire is a town of 5700 people situated on the Atlantic coast just north of Massachusetts. In August 1976 construction of two large, 1150-megawatt nuclear reactors began on a piece of Seabrook land once used as an Indian burial ground. Now more than 40 acres of marshland has been filled in and covered with warehouses, guard buildings and a cement factory...
...main talks were held in a Tudor-style home nestled in dense tropical foliage overlooking marshland, where Carter slipped away to do some fishing. As the discussions went on, the Georgian stressed his intention to reorganize the Government. He told his nominees that no bureaucracy is sacrosanct and that they "should not become seduced by what exists" in their departments. The group also considered the package of jobs legislation and tax cuts that Carter will soon propose to stimulate the economy. On Capitol Hill, House Democrats were already planning to introduce a bill increasing the current $2 billion public works...
Descending over sparsely populated marshland at the airport's northeastern edge, the blue-and-white airliner roared in, fatally low and short of the runway. Still a full 2,300 ft. from 22-L but otherwise on course, it struck a row of 22-ft. towers supporting the runway approach lights. It clipped three of them. Then, in what may have been a final valiant effort by the pilot to regain control, it momentarily cleared the next three. Finally, it plunged into four more...
Even more significant, $158 million of the funds have been designated for preserving Venice's lagoon and its surrounding marshland. These mud flats act as giant sponges which soak up high tide waters that flood the sinking city with deplorable frequency. In 1971, for instance, Venice's streets were inundated about 200 times...
...people of Canarsie are 95% white, mostly Italians who started settling when this was still a marshland lit by the glow of municipal trash fires, and then Jews who moved in to escape the increasing number of blacks in adjoining Brownsville. They are mostly working and lower-middle class (college graduates: 6.6% ; average income: $12,303), proud of their neat brick houses. Canarsie, then, is typical of the defacto segregation in Northern cities (New York is 21% black, but some schools are 95% black or 95% white, depending on the area), and so it was in Canarsie that school officials...