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...bleakest landscape in the U.S. can be found where miners have torn away the earth's surface to get at coal deposits. Huge piles of gray debris, aptly called "orphan soil banks," stand like gravestones over land so scarred and acidic that only rodents can live there. The sight is not rare. Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output. They have already ripped up more than 1,800,000 acres. By 1980, if present trends continue...
There is no solid evidence that any missiles have actually been placed on launchers. Nonetheless, if Pentagon forecasts prove correct, Peking could have a force of 80 to 100 MRBMs, with ranges of 1,000 or more miles and 20-kiloton warheads (Hiroshima size) imbedded deep in Chinese soil by the mid-1970s. The missiles would be no threat to the U.S., but they would be within reach of Peking's Asian neighbors, notably the Soviet Far East...
...have an automatic "right of abode" in the mother country. Other Commonwealth citizens will be subject to the same restrictions as aliens. They will still be British subjects entitled to vote in British elections and even to stand for Parliament the moment they manage to set foot on British soil. But the Commonwealth nonpatrial may enter Britain only if he has a specific job and only for a specific period-normally one year. He must register with the police, show proof of registration when asked, and submit to a wide range of other restrictions. He may be deported...
Potentially, California has always been one of the world's greatest vineyards. The state's favorable soil and climate rival and in some ways surpass that of the wine-producing areas of France. Only in recent years, however, have California vintners been able to overcome the popular impression-once founded on fact-that most of their wines lacked the mellow appeal of Europe's output. One consequence is a splurge of expansion that has lured both big corporations and a remarkable number of individual entrepreneurs into the California wine industry...
...trees, at least for many decades. A further hazard is that large amounts of nutrient minerals previously tied up in forest vegetation may have been released and leached out of sprayed forests by the heavy tropical rains." The danger from this "nutrient dumping" is that on a large scale soil fertility would be reduced drastically...