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...continued dumping of untreated sewage into the sea and burning of trash in an open-air pit. The waters right off the station are reportedly more polluted with substances such as heavy metals and PCBs than any similar stretch of water in the U.S. Greenpeace has also documented reckless dumping and burning at Soviet, Uruguayan, Argentine, Chilean and Chinese bases. And an airstrip under construction at France's Dumont d'Urville base has already leveled part of an Adelie-penguin rookery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Antarctica | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...against St. Lawrence on Saturday, Flomenhoft threw his body around with reckless abandon, crushing three Saints in the first period, pasting another in the second, nailing Shawn Rivers twice in the third and scuffling with Rob White in overtime...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A New Enforcer Graces Bright | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...progressed -- in Asia and at home -- U.S. photographers left coverage elsewhere in the world to newly formed, predominantly French news agencies: Gamma, Sygma, Contact. Fiercely competitive, the agencies brought to news photography in Beirut, Tehran and other battlefronts a brand of reckless intimacy that television could not yet duplicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Challenges 1950-1980 | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...waning minutes, the Big Red played with reckless abandon. Twice, Reilly thwarted Cornell attempts to protect the one-goal margin...

Author: By Andy Fine, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Fair Leads W. Booters To 1-0 Win Over Red | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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