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God's Displeasure. Some townspeople gave up and fled. Others daily swept piles of dead crickets from their houses for a huge truck to haul away. Schools closed because pupils could no longer concentrate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Crickets of Altinho | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Armies are machines designed by and large for human destruction, but they are also generators of huge piles of junk. Even in peacetime, military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Military as Litterbug | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

According to the Cambridge Fire Department, the train became disabled at 2:16 p.m. and sparks from the third rail set fire to several piles of rubbish along the tracks.

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Subway Car Sets Rubbish on Fire | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Around lambing time last spring, persistent reports drifted into Washington of huge piles of dead eagles in Wyoming. The stories were discounted at first. There are only about 2,000 or so bald eagles left in the U.S. outside of Alaska, and an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sluicing the Eagles | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Each morning in Boise, Idaho, as many as 50 temporary employees of the First Security Bank enter a suite of six rooms and seat themselves at tables topped with small piles of thin strips of paper. They delicately sift and poke through the piles, plucking out individual strips and pasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Going to Pieces in Boise | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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