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As teams of divers from the U.S. and South America struggled last week to plug a hole in the Argentine ship Bahia Paraiso, which had sunk and was leaking 3,000 gal. of fuel a day, squadrons of scientists rushed in to assess the damage caused by Antarctica's first...
Whatever happens to tourism, the devastation from the oil spill could be a serious setback to the idea of oil and mineral exploration in Antarctica. Last May, 33 nations drafted an agreement that would eventually open the area to mining and drilling. That treaty, which the U.S. Senate will consider...
What can be done to prevent the world from wallowing in waste? Most important is to reduce trash at its source. At the consumer level, one option is to charge households a garbage-collection fee according to the amount of refuse they produce. Manufacturers too need more prodding. Higher fines...
JAY PRITZKER. The publicity-shy chairman of the Hyatt Corp., Pritzker, 66, with his brother Robert, 62, surprised both Kravis and Johnson by joining the First Boston investment firm in an informal last-minute bid for RJR Nabisco valued at as much as $27 billion. Allied with the Pritzkers is...
The civil war erupted in 1975 as Angola achieved independence after an anticolonial struggle against Portugal that had begun in 1961. It has killed more than 100,000 Angolans, wounded tens of thousands and cost the country as much as $23 billion in war damage, lost crops and lost diamond...