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Health officials decided to cover the remaining chemicals instead of hosing down the soil and dispersing the trichloride into the air. "We decided in favor of a smaller containment problem over a longer term," Somerville Mayor Eugene Brune told a press conference last night...
...Moro affair, the scholarly, multilingual Cossiga, 51, turned out to be unexpectedly engaging and energetic. In Parliament he managed to put across a comparatively tough package of antiterrorist legislation, and despite Communist opposition, won approval for basing NATO's new, intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles on Italian soil...
...mercury. Reason: the toxic metal, ordinarily concentrated in sediment, changes into an organic form, methyl mercury, in acid water and is then easily absorbed by the fish. While the threat to plants is not as well understood, acid rain can eat away at leaves, leach nutrients from the soil, interfere with photosynthesis, and affect the nitrogen-fixing capabilities of such plants as peas and soybeans. Scandinavian scientists claim the rain has caused a 15% reduction in timber growth. It can also corrode stone statues, limestone buildings and metal rooftops. In the past two decades, Athens' Parthenon and Rome...
...from the south. Through the 60-mile Bolan Pass in the Brahui mountains they come, nomadic families with their camels, sheep, donkeys, the beasts of burden laden with all their possessions. They march by day and camp at sundown while the animals graze on the stony, barren soil. Many will settle around Quetta for the summer: raising sheep, taking day jobs weeding the cultivated fields in the area...
...important eastern bulwark of the northern tier of Southwest Asia, but only a fistful are acquainted with our unique indigent culture. Since the severe Soviet invasion of our nation, the rebels are eager for the Afghan-American friendship treatment. Let me introduce you to my land and its soil...