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...prompted alarming predictions of millions of dollars' worth of damage to water-supply systems and the ruination of the sport-fishing industry. A year ago, the city of Monroe, Mich., lost its water supply for two full days because intake lines were plugged with zebra mussels. Earlier, Ford Motor's casting plant in Windsor, Ont., found the creatures choking off the flow of cooling water to its furnaces. Boaters, meanwhile, have watched their hulls and engines become encrusted with mussels...
...help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, notes that spending on environmental preservation "must be regarded as an important motor of economic change...
RoboDeer does have some defects. His head has blown a fuse or two, and his hide has been perforated by bullets. But while the DNR readily displays the deer, it insists on keeping one detail absolutely secret: the location of its motor. DNR's Ransom would say only, "It is in an area that typically would not be shot...
Direct-mail practitioners counter that their product is the solution, not the problem. Mail-order shopping helps the environment, they argue, by keeping consumers out of cars, saving gas and motor oil and reducing air pollution. On the issue of privacy, they contend that direct mail is the least intrusive way to reach consumers. "It's not like a commercial where you have to wait a whole minute for the evening news to continue, or a billboard that blocks the scenery, or the telephone call that gets you out of the bathtub," says copywriting maestro Bill Jayme of Sonoma, Calif...
Lots of others think they know too. It's one thing to work into the new record musically, as Simon's friend Quincy Jones does when he says, "Paul goes straight for the throat. And he's smart enough to understand the African motor, which has driven pop music for so long." But it's another to cast the lyrical runes for references to his personal turmoil, especially when he is hands-down champion of the Confessional Songwriters, Elliptical Division. Perhaps it's just another kind of standing invitation...