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...coastal erosion is a national problem; one-quarter of the nation's shores are suffering serious erosion, and a number of resort areas, such as Miami Beach, have been ravaged. Padre is no exception. "The shoreline of South Padre Island has been retreating at least since the late 1800s," wrote University of Texas Geologist Robert Morton in a 1975 report. "At many points, rates of erosion increased between 1960 and 1969, with parts of the island experiencing extreme erosion." Separate studies last year by the state's general land office and researchers at Texas A & M University confirmed...
...sequence that stopped just short of disaster exposed a number of weaknesses in the safeguard system, including the obvious flaw of not having a remote-control method of adjusting a stuck valve. But human fallibility apparently was the more alarming shortcoming of what happened at Three Mile Island. Once the original on-site mistakes had been made, the blame spread to the NRC itself. Commission officials privately admit that they were slow to get an emergency crew with the necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three...
Pacing the ball with pinpoint accuracy, the Harvard senior mixed tenacious consistency with an occasional glorious crosscourt backhand winner. Even when Eames made repeated lob returns of Chaikovsky smashes, the Crimson number two refused to grow careless and pounded down more overheads until Eames finally netted the ball...
...game singles margin was merely icing on the cake since Harvard swept the doubles. Pompan and Chaikovsky at number one pasted Davidson and Schmucker, 6-2, 6-3. What coach Dave Fish called Chaikovsky's "playmaking" shots, complemented the fierce forehand and backhand winners of Pompan to leave Davidson and Schmucker almost helpless...
Mark Smith, the lights' number six man, prefers the scene from Lawrence of Arabia when the Arabs defy the voice of reason and descend upon the Turks with Lawrence screaming, "No prisoners" as the precedent for the boat's name. The message, according to Smith, is that, "rationality will not get in the way of winning crew races...