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...mainly by 19th century European merchants. It has become-in perhaps too many ways-China's New York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura of intrigue and the giddy opulence. The once-imposing semicircle...
...Japanese are disenchanted with runaway expansion largely because they blame it for causing intolerable pollution. Great palls of deadly, eye-smarting smog from factory smokestacks settle over the cities and their increasingly restive inhabitants. Last week pollution protesters staged a lie-in at government offices in Tokyo. Most were victims of pollution-induced cadmium poisoning, a painful bone complaint that the Japanese call itai itai (ouch ouch). One day recently, Tokyo's Haneda Airport was so socked in by pollution that planes had to be diverted to another city. Industrial waste and sludge have also poisoned the streams...
...immediate concern about the tailings." As Frank Folk, who is principal of a local school, puts it: "I'd just as soon be here in the clear air with the tailings as in some of those cities with their smog...
Principal source of Birmingham's smog is a clutch of 23 heavy-industry companies (including U.S. Steel and Republic Steel), whose smokestacks spew out tons of sooty particles each day. Last April, when a similar temperature inversion occurred, most of the companies ignored requests from local health authorities and the EPA to cut back production, and held out until a shift in the weather blew the problem away...
...drastically cut back production. The judge did just that. It was the first such order obtained under the emergency powers given the EPA by the 1970 Clean Air Act. Compliance was good if somewhat reluctant. Though by week's end a light wind and rain cleared the smog and the injunction was lifted, the order was an earnest of more injunctions to come...