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...many parts of the U.S., in fact, nature has begun to reclaim its property - with a necessary assist from concerned people and governments, and at an enormous price. The reclamation is often underwritten by America's 26,022,547 licensed anglers; every penny of the $107 million they pay in license fees is used to support conservation programs...
However, the release to the administration of a sealed list of code numbers and names from a Microbiology final earlier this week may only have given the faculty a hostage it will be impossible to reclaim...
...mining than the one the Senate passed last month (TIME, Oct. 22). If it passes the full House, the bill will require surface miners not only to restore stripped land to its original contours, but also to pay a $2.50-per-ton fee to a fund set up to reclaim the land they ravaged in the process of digging...
...before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What this means in effect is a purge of the party's roilsome leftists...
Fortunately, there are solutions to these man-made disasters. India and Pakistan can, like China and Algeria, reforest their hills. The sub-Saharan nations of Africa can, with massive international help, copy the U.S.'s 1930s soil conservation program and reclaim their land. If the anchovies do return in great numbers, the Peruvians can strictly limit the yearly catch and still get fine harvests. But clearly, the first lesson is to understand-and respect-basic ecological realities. As Economist Lester Brown puts it: "If we are to get the food we need, we cannot put more stress on nature...