Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wherever and whenever man moves, he takes with him an enemy-the rat. Sly, hardy and resilient, it rode with Marco Polo and voyaged with Magellan, Cabot and countless captains of tramp steamers. And like any ocean-bored traveler, the first thing a rat did was to get off the moment the ship docked...
There were other misfortunes. For two tender years she painfully wore a metal back brace to correct a spinal curvature. On an 1887 ocean crossing-following a European tour that was unaccountably supposed to divorce Elliott from alcohol-the Roosevelts' ship was rammed by another, and Eleanor was treated to a 77tam'c-style scene of tragedy and hysteria that left her with a lifelong fear of water...
Elsewhere along its onetime imperial lifeline, Britain will keep five battalions in Hong Kong but remove all troops from the Persian Gulf area by the end of the year. It will also keep one R.A.F. base in the Persian Gulf and one on the Indian Ocean island of Gan -which is among the most isolated outposts in the world-so that troops can be quickly airlifted eastward in case of emergency...
...what he calls Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
...help combat the problem of ocean pollution, Cousteau is pushing for expanded research, especially by such tools as the "Sky Lab" satellite for underwater observation, which could spot and measure concentrations of pollution. He has also called upon the 14 industrialized nations that he estimates are responsible for 80% of the oceans' pollution to join forces and act quickly-before it is too late...