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...Mediterranean is a closed sea, its only significant outlet being the Straits of Gibraltar. Nearly 90% of the sewage that pours into its waters is untreated. The Naples sewer system is so antiquated that authorities cannot even locate the pipes. In Athens, 60% of the city is not connected to the central sewage system. Pollution is most severe along the French and Italian Rivieras, where the chemical wastes of thousands of factories are flushed directly into the sea or carried there by major rivers. The chances of getting all 18 countries that border the Mediterranean to agree on methods...
...Laurie. His parents, a hard-bitten merchant seaman and a teen-age bride, began breaking up shortly after Art's birth in suburban Los Angeles (which his mother tried to prevent by aborting herself). Art's lonely upbringing was entrusted to an unloving grandmother. He found an outlet in the clarinet at nine and switched to the saxophone at twelve. He proved such a natural that he was soon jamming around town with musicians like Zoot Sims and Dexter Gordon. At 17 he was married and playing lead alto with Stan Kenton...
Meanwhile, the Public Broadcasting Service, whose Boston outlet co-produced the film, said last week that it would not change its plans to televise the two-hour program, over more than 100 stations, on May 12. State Department officials in Washington acknowledged that the Saudis had expressed their concern about the showing. They were obviously paying no heed to an old Hollywood adage: the louder the protest, the bigger the audience...
...Childless women get it, And men when they retire; It's as if there had to be some outlet For their foiled creative fire...
...burden on those stations to provide time for opposing points of view," Edwin Rothschild of Energy Action says. If the stations don't provide equal time, Rothschild says, the "economic vastness" of Mobil will allow it to present its opinions unanswered. "They can just about cover every media outlet with their point of view," Rothschild says, "We just haven't got that kind of money...