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Both Tuesday and yesterday, Landes focused onthe controversy surrounding the Medical Area TotalEnergy Plant (MATEP) in the early 1970s...
...natural habitats serving most American plant and animal life have declined to the point of endangerment, according to a new federal study cited this morning in The New York Times. Forests, wetlands and prairies are among the areas that formerly made up half the U.S. landscape, but much of that land has been converted for other uses or damaged in recent years. The survey points to 30 ecosystems which are "critically endangered," while the ability of the rest to carry out their ecological functions has severely degraded, jeopardizing all of the species which rely on those surroundings...
...clobbered by rising interest rates. The past three years were heady ones for Detroit, which saw car and truck sales climb 8% in 1993 and an additional 8.6% in 1994. But with sales expected to grow just 3% this year, automakers are scaling back production schedules and idling plants. Ford, which had declared three temporary closings in January, said it would also shut a Canadian plant that makes full-size Crown Victorias for a week beginning Monday, and close a Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar facility in Ohio for two weeks...
...largest U.S. operations affected were Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Eli Lilly and Caterpillar. Procter & Gamble, which runs a $2 billion business in Japan, will be unable to use its 30-story office tower for several months, and is operating out of nearby Osaka. Lilly's main plant is still working but a new one, due to open this month, will need weeks of repair. Hewlett-Packard's electronics plant went back to work at 60% capacity last week. ``Shoot,'' says Dorwin Larsen, general manager of the Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi joint venture in Kobe, ``it's not that significant...
...Silas Cochise, a relative of the famed 19th century Apache chief Cochise and the manager of a project designed to bring at least 20,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear power plant waste to the land of the Mescalero Apaches in return for up to $250 million in benefits over up to 40 years, quoted in the Boston Globe...