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...most visible sign of progress is the proliferation of new sewage-treatment plants, each branded with blue-and-white "clean water" emblems, that dot the shore line. To build them takes money, and it has been forthcoming. San Diego alone has spent $51 million since 1960 to scrub its wastes. Moreover, the sludge does not end up in the ocean but goes back to the land, fertilizing flower beds and lush recreational facilities. Yet even this model scheme is not enough to satisfy the new fervor for clean water. California's water resources control board has adopted a plan...
...legal crackdown on fake term papers [March 27] is like fighting measles by using steel wool to scrub off the belmishes. The basic contradiction this business thrives upon is that students are required to write term papers of no use or interest to them. "Publish or pelish" on the professoriaal level becomes "compose or fail" on the student level. This term paper requirement, so irrelevant to real needs of most students, is just one more example of how the educational system is geared to academic, bureaucratic and corporate instuitions and not be the needs of the students...
...Goddamn! Cops out to stop everybody from having a little fun. They try to pick on some boys and they run into ME!' And he and his truck and his rifle and his dog in the back jostle and bump back into the woods over little clumps of palmetto scrub and burnt out stumps, looking for foxes...
...right," said Hunter Ron Sells, insisting he had spotted a white girl running wild with a herd of kangaroos across the Nullarbor desert in southwestern Australia. "When she saw us, she watched us for a few minutes, and then she dashed off with the 'roos into the scrub...
...that time, two enterprising cameramen had managed to produce some pictures of a girl running with the kangaroos-and actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...