Word: river
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means of boiling water. Outside the compound is a cluster of bamboo and palm-leaf huts housing 89 grievously undernourished orphans, whose bloated stomachs and matchstick limbs are signs of severe deficiencies. The staple of their woefully inadequate diet: powdered milk mixed with water trucked in from a river near...
...YOUR MOTTO is, "I spend, therefore I am," then Cambridge is the place to be. On your trek from the River to the Yard you can pick up a squash racket, poetry by an obscure author, and a slice of pizza with hardly a break in stride; when you tire of the Harvard market you can hop the Dudley bus for a quarter, and pour your green from Central Square to Roxbury...
...most important omens for the future of the lakes is the sharp reduction in the amount of phosphorus dumped into them. A 1972 U.S.-Canadian agreement lowered the levels of phosphates that municipalities were allowed to dump into the water, and most towns along the shores and on rivers emptying into the lakes are well on their way toward meeting those requirements. The significant exception is the city of Detroit; it continues to dump three times the permissible levels into the Detroit River, which flows into the western end of Lake Erie. One of the largest sources of the harmful...
Large game fish are making a comeback. Virtually wiped out by overfishing, pollution and the eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only...
Thus the problems of the Great Lakes are not solved because the beach at Storing State Park on Lake Erie is officially opened again for the first time since 1961, or because the Cuyahoga River, while gray and sulky looking, is relatively free from oil and jetsam, or because the water treatment plant in Chicago is having fewer taste and odor problems. Says EPA's Swain: "We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of toxic substances. Then there is a whole series of new environmental issues." Among them: sodium from the salt used...