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...this month's scheduled underground nuclear blast. Bomber tails and ruptured fuselages litter the island. An estimated one million fuel drums are scattered on Alaska's north coast. At least 100,000 drums, left by builders of DEW-line radar sites in the 1950s, disfigure the shores of the Beaufort Sea, within the boundaries of the nation's largest wildlife refuge. Some have been only partially emptied by the departing military and are leaking oil, which is toxic to wildlife. Barrel pollution is also responsible for a strange phenomenon: what is known as an "oil-drum culture...
...Wodehouse-known as "Plum" to his friends and "Plummie" to Ethel, his wife of 57 years-was still in good form, working on a new novel and surrounded by the inevitable dogs and cats in his house at Remsenburg, a serene little town on Long Island's south shore...
...complex apart from Disneyland and its imitators. Disneymen call their creation a "total destination resort"-not just a stopover, in other words, but a place to spend a weekend or a week. Early guests have been staying at the Polynesian Village Hotel, built in Tahitian style along a lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will be finished by January, and two more cavernous hotels-in Persian, Thai and Venetian styles-have...
...once bright waters of Lake Lugano, for example, have been contaminated by the daily dumping of untreated human wastes by communities along both the Italian and Swiss shores. This spring all of the beaches on Lake Lugano's opulent Paradise coast were closed to swimmers. As "no swimming" signs became a common sight along the shore, major Paradise hotels rushed to complete huge lakeside pools in time for the summer invasion of tourists. During the season, the lake was empty of swimmers. Even most water skiers, whose wakes once crisscrossed the lake, stayed away...
...With the Congress, the Administration is trying to strike a balance between preserving U.S. shoreline areas as priceless natural resources and allowing carefully regulated maritime and industrial development. Some wetlands experts have suggested "single use" laws for coastal areas: industry in a given state would be concentrated in one shore area, people in another and wildlife in yet another...