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...take to help stimulate the demand. None of them is easy to implement. All of them require some reallocation of scarce resources. Some of them are politically sensitive. But governments must measure those costs against the immeasurably greater costs in store for societies that procrastinate while dangerous population pressures mount...
...portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot in the current album is a "down the hole" look into the summit caldera, or crater, of Mars' Olympus Mons, a volcano that dwarfs the earth's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. Olympus Mons measures 600 kilometers (375 miles)-the width of the state of New Mexico-across its base and towers to 27.4 kilometers (90,000 ft.)-three times the height of Everest...
...cast for brief, intense, festival-like engagements. This season began with Luciano Pavarotti in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore. Coming up are Jon Vickers in Britten's Peter Grimes and Frederica von Stade in The Barber of Seville. This November the Lyric will mount its first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. To Carol Fox, the formula for aesthetic and commercial success...
...Harvard women's tennis team missed all the Dartmouth festivities while they were way up in Mount Holyoke this weekend, but they have a big, shiny trophy to show for their pains and the title as Massachusetts State Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Champions...
FREE SPEECH IS for sale these days, and the oil companies are buying. Accusations of profiteering and veiled threats of federal crackdowns have driven the energy conglomerates to mount a massive and unprecedented media blitz aimed at changing their public image. Last year the oil industry spent over $100 million on advertising, much of it unabashedly political. Mobil alone spends about $5 million a year, and from 1973 to mid-1976 not a penny went to product advertisements. Instead, the entire budget went to buying huge amounts of newspaper, magazine and television ads devoted to the now-familiar oil company...