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...billion annual tourist business in jeopardy, the Army Corps of Engineers put forward a $7.8 billion plan in 1998 to undo many of its earlier projects and restore the slow-moving sheet of water that made the Everglades a natural wonderland. Billions more will be spent removing phosphorus from agricultural runoff, restoring habitats and modifying development plans to reduce stress on the system, but there is no guarantee that even these efforts will bring back the Everglades. The unsettling prospect that the planet's richest nation may not have the wherewithal to restore a vital ecosystem underscores a theme that...
Soda lovers, before your next gulp, consider this: A preliminary report on men suggests that drinking 4 1/2 cans a day of fructose-filled pop may cause the body to lose calcium and phosphorus--two minerals essential for strong bones...
...peasant rite. Doctors in grubby white coats offer herbal medicines, acupuncture or blood-pressure tests. Vendors proffer savory kabobs or key chains. Children rent old-fashioned roller skates for a few yuan, while their elder brothers play badminton without any nets. The throng does not disperse until the blazing phosphorus lights dim near midnight...
...more than $62,000 over the years as well as $419,000 to the Republican Party since 1991. Dole opposed a plan last winter to tax Florida cane growers 2' for each pound of their product to help restore the Everglades, which is dying from the phosphorus runoff of sugar plantations like Fanjul's. But to do nothing for the Everglades would have crippled his presidential ambitions in the crucial state of Florida. So instead of assessing cane growers like Fanjul, Dole struck a compromise to take $200 million from the general treasury for Everglades restoration and thus scored...
...growers, both Southern cane farmers and Midwestern beet growers, outfoxed not only congressional reformers but also a high-powered coalition of sugar and sweetener users such as Coca-Cola and Hershey Foods. These opponents were joined by environmental groups, particularly those in Florida, where phosphorus-laden runoff from sugarcane fields has been turning stretches of the Everglades into cattail-clogged waters...