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Such trees as fragrant pine and plants such as pungent sage produce the "blue haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
...number is growing faster than the human population. There is little public transport; less than 8% of Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers. The auto, of course, is ihe main contributor to the city's infamous smog, which keeps spreading-despite a recent requirement for exhaust devices-simply because the number of vehicles is increasing so fast...
...reports were in. Based tests made in California on 404 new models, all equipped with the devices required by state law to control exhaust fumes and cut down on engine evaporation, the State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board found that the new equipment had removed 70% of the obnoxious, smog-causing gases...
...petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite: "It makes you feel right at home...
...coverage for which it won its prize presents the biggest problems for the Times. With 4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping, interlocking governments, Los Angeles is a city editor's nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program of recruiting copy editors straight from college and training them...