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...plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would supposedly form a harmless reef. That was not the answer, said Ruckelshaus...
...wore on, bringing five more unsolved sex crimes, suspicion turned to hostility and then violence. Le Gastelois was stoned and spat upon when he walked through the village. Hooligans tore his cottage apart. By the summer of 1961, he had had enough. He fled to a stony, wave-swept reef seven miles offshore known as Les Ecrehous (the Rocky Islets). On his barren refuge, no larger than a football field, he learned to subsist on lobster, crab and boiled sea lettuce, plus gifts brought by curiosity- seeking tourists. "Only by going away could I clear my name," he would tell...
...done, all the oceans will be dead before the end of the century. Cousteau, who speaks with the authority of numerous dives made in virtually all of the planet's deep waters, told Senator Ernest Rolling's subcommittee on oceans and atmosphere that even the remote reef off Madagascar is "frankly dead today." In a very few years, he added, "there will be nothing alive" in the deeper waters of the Black...
Poisonous Stone Fish. NBC's Barrier Reef is yet another underwater adventure series. The first installment dealt with an attempted murder involving a poisonous stone fish. Another NBC show, Mr. Wizard, is back after a six-year hiatus. The première half-hour was concerned mainly with the elaborate preparations necessary for setting up a color-camera magnifier in order to view underwater life on a giant video screen. Science could be exciting. Not, unfortunately, on this show...
...name for sun-god. Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia. He failed to convince most fellow scholars that Peruvian-Polynesian cultural coincidences were more than just that. But by Aug. 7, when he cracked up on a coral reef 4,300 miles from Peru (and 250 miles east of Tahiti), Heyerdahl had proved indubitably that a balsa raft could cross the Pacific. He had also become a celebrity- one of those adventurers who stir the thin blood of the technological age with intimations of what the word hero once...