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...role in regulating water levels and quality, cleaning the air, enhancing the productivity of fisheries and enriching the stability and character of the soil. "We're probably just on the edge in terms of our understanding," says Eric Forsman, a biologist with the Forest Service. "If we continue pell-mell down the path of eliminating these old forests, we'll never have the opportunity to learn because they won't be there to study." He and others have come to believe that where science ends, the mystery that is the ancient forest begins...
...with Griffin taking most of Resorts and Trump getting the uncompleted Taj Mahal. Griffin's older, debt-laden properties went into bankruptcy only two years later. Trump had to borrow an estimated $1 billion to finish the monstrous Taj. Ominously, the city's casino business, which had grown pell-mell during the '80s, abruptly stagnated...
...pell-mell pursuit of profits by businesses has long been a major source of pollution. But could such greed be used instead to help preserve the environment? A growing number of politicians and economists think so, and they have come up with the idea of allowing companies to buy and sell the "right" to pollute as part of a plan to encourage them to clean up their operations. Ultimately, there could be a national or even global market that would treat pollution permits like stocks and bonds...
Similarly, the U.S. needs to revamp its technical assistance to poorer nations. In the past, development agencies have tended to promote pell-mell progress, leading many nations to conclude that environmental destruction is an integral part of economic advance. Senator Albert Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, advocates that assistance be refocused on "leapfrogging" technologies, like low-emission power plants, so that nations may better the lives of their people without repeating the mistakes of the industrial world. But to develop better technologies, says Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the U.S. will have to bolster its faltering science education...
...pell-mell surge of events in Eastern Europe left Moscow to make a virtue of necessity, giving its blessing to an erosion of Communist power that it could do little to reverse in any case. Meanwhile, the U.S. is in no better position to impose its will on its robust NATO allies, especially a West Germany that has become the engine of change on the Continent, pouring the deutsche mark into Eastern Europe the way the dollar once flowed to the Western nations under the Marshall Plan. All through the summit the German question hung in the air, although...