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Less than 10% of the oil dumped into the world's oceans each year is the result of large, well-publicized spills involving wrecked tankers or malicious Iraqi generals. Most of the fouling is caused by thousands of small, unrecorded spills from tankers and ships and by runoff from industrial plants. Oil's assault on the oceans is unceasing. Fortunately, as the Shetlands spill has shown, the seas have a greater ability to absorb punishment than humanity has any right to expect...
...President-elect got an unwelcome indication that his political clout is still less than overpowering. He campaigned hard for Georgia Senator Wyche Fowler, even playing the saxophone at a rally on the eve of a runoff election last week. But Fowler lost to Republican Paul Coverdell, ensuring that the Democrats will not increase the 57-to-43 edge they hold in the Senate...
Blame it on the hair (or lack thereof), but however you cut it, Harvard junior Brian Ramer managed somehow to edge out quarterback Mike Giardi in a special runoff election Monday to be named the football team's 120th captain...
This fall, falling leaves and soil runoff havestained the water supply of Cambridge brown andyellow. However, neither the waste nor thediscoloration, which occurs every fall, signal anyhealth dangers, said Ed Dowling, a departmentchemist...
Every country contributes to the situation roughly in proportion to its size, although countries that are leveling their forests are making the runoff problem especially bad. Some ocean advocates called for a new global treaty that would deal specifically with land-based pollution. The U.S., on the other hand, favored strengthening existing international agreements to control this pollution, particularly at the national and regional levels. In the end, negotiators adopted the U.S. approach, agreeing that countries should commit themselves to cleaning up the seas but that it was premature to consider drafting a formal global treaty...