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...pipeline were built on schedule, or if offshore oil reserves were tapped in time, the nation would not face a serious oil shortage. If automakers did not have to install antipollution equipment, cars would get much better mileage per gallon. If electric utilities were not limited to burning the scarcest of fuels-coal and oil with low sulfur content or natural gas-there would be less chance that the cities will go cold this winter. The root trouble in each of these cases is one environmental law or another, and it therefore follows that the repeal or modification of those...
...cities the lines start forming shortly after 3 a.m. Even the most polite are inclined to forget themselves as they fight for one of Japan's scarcest commodities: space on the golf course. So popular has the game become that it is regularly played by an estimated one-tenth of Japan's 108 million people, ranging from the Prime Minister to Zen monks. So many gorufu courses are being built that some environmentalists are complaining about a new kind of pollution: golf pollution...
With beef cattle currently the scarcest commodity of all, some people-a tiny minority, to be sure-are willing to turn to the horse. Carlson's, a butcher shop in Westbrook, Conn., that recently converted to horsemeat exclusively, now sells about 6,000 Ibs. of the stuff a day. The cuts have the same names and shapes as beef but cost half as much. The savings will grow when beef prices shoot up again next month...
...patients have to wait too long because doctors are too busy? It depends mainly on where they live. Britain has almost enough doctors: one for every 1,100 people (as compared to one for 830 in the U.S.), but they are badly distributed. General practitioners are scarcest and in greatest demand. Most of southern England and the big cities have plenty, while rural areas and small towns in the north are doctor-starved. There, NHS sometimes has to let one G.P. sign up 4.000 patients. The general maximum allowed is 3,500, and the average list...
...back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...