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...water pollution on a grand scale, crumbling infrastructure, raging crime and sprawling slums. Rio even has its own troubled tropical forest, the remnants of which sweep up the hillsides behind the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Those beaches have lost much of their appeal to tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor plumbing is a luxury in Rio's fetid hillside slums, and health officials...
...other nights, Neumann bid goodbye to his social life to study. Judging by his academic accomplishments, there must have been many of those. The Ocean, N.J., native earned a 3.6 grade-point average in economics this year, which got him named a secondteam Academic All-American...
...Without thinking, I told the fellow, 'I swam," Quist says. "After that, of course, I had to keep it up. I told him that Texaco had funded the whole thing. That first they flew me to the Liberian coast, where I waded out into the ocean and started swimming west. A boat followed me and picked me up at night so I could sleep, butanchored so I could start in the same place thenext day. I said the whole trip took about two anda half weeks...
Every country contributes to the situation roughly in proportion to its size, although countries that are leveling their forests are making the runoff problem especially bad. Some ocean advocates called for a new global treaty that would deal specifically with land-based pollution. The U.S., on the other hand, favored strengthening existing international agreements to control this pollution, particularly at the national and regional levels. In the end, negotiators adopted the U.S. approach, agreeing that countries should commit themselves to cleaning up the seas but that it was premature to consider drafting a formal global treaty...
...however, that the U.S. must continue to take an active part in foreign affairs. "You probably know that there is still a view in the world that Americans are a little complacent and that Americans are not very interested in what is happening...on the other side of the ocean," Gorbachev said...