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Informed, sensible agricultural policies could reduce such losses in the future, but even the most sophisticated technologies have so far been little help against the growing threat of Caribbean oil spills. In addition, there is the danger of seepage from offshore fields along the coasts of the U.S., Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico. Rodriguez Mercado points out that past experience suggests that 6.7% of total offshore oil production will spill into the sea because of such mishaps as blowouts, platform fires and other accidents. The world's largest oil spill, in fact, occurred in the Caribbean when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting Blight in Paradise | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

OPENING NIGHT at the Hasty Pudding Theatrical one big coming out party for the campus's bourgeois gent. I dxedo they quall champagne and hobnob at gala parties before, during and after the performance. They speak of friends and women and money mostly money and several spill champagne on their dates blouses, because it is fashionable. They are in large part the affiliant of the Hasty Pudding past and present. One day they will be Lee or perhaps John DeLoreans but tonight, by showtime, many are besotted. All are happy. Staggering penguins in Cambridge, it is a surreal scene...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...embarrassed White House moved to contain the image spill, launching its own probe of the EPA and proposing a compromise to try to settle the contempt case against Gorsuch. But it could do little to muffle the echoes of earlier Capital scandals: whining paper shredders, charges of lying under oath, mysterious erasures on subpoenaed documents, leaked memos and harassment of whistle blowers. Problems began for Lavelle soon after she assumed the $67,200-a-year EPA post ten months ago. Ambitious but short on administrative skills, "she came into the agency like a Mack truck," said one former EPA official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superfund, Supermess | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...black and yellow T-shirts reading "I hate the Capitalist system" and "Question Authority." Calendars entitled "Women Working" and "Human Rights"--rather than the standard Garfield, Ziggy and Sierra Club brands--fill the shelves. Pamphlets and fliers for forums on Women's Rights, Gay Liberation, and anti-draft colloquiums spill over all available counter space. This is no ordinary book store...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Red Book Sells Radical Wares | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

...prevent a repeat spill, Danchy took to the streets at 4:45 a.m. for three miles before the streets got slick...

Author: By Joseph Garcia, | Title: City Councillors Get Monday Night Off As Mayor Cancels Regular Meeting | 2/8/1983 | See Source »

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