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...sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...
...five years ago for the Three Mile Island accident, interviewing frightened citizens living in the shadow of the cooling towers. Barbara Dolan talked with officials at several Southern utility companies who remain staunchly pro-nuclear despite current problems. Chicago's J. Madeleine Nash interviewed officials of newly canceled Midwestern nuclear plants. Jay Branegan, TIME'S Washington-based specialist on energy and the environment, interviewed Energy Department officials and members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Says he: "It is startling to see how much the nuclear story has changed in a decade. We have gone from a state...
...Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting in two little Iowa towns during some of the coldest and snowiest weather anyone there can remember. "The harshness of the Iowa winter has totally dominated the filming," says Lange. "The subfreezing temperatures day after day brought home...
...Knopf; 184 pages; $25) was completed by Borland's friend and sometime collaborator Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate unfolding of shagbark hickory buds), historical oddities (the Midwestern pioneers who used large, hollow sycamores as barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair...
...cannot help feeling as though I did not tell the whole story. Did I unfairly raise their expectations of getting accepted? How many of them could make it through the competitive selection process? Since most Midwestern and Western colleges accept the American College Test (ACT), many of them had not even heard of the SAT, ("What are the Achievement Tests?" was not an infrequent question...