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...students are black. It is highly impractical in New York City, where more than half of the 1,000,000 pupils are heavily concentrated in such huge ghettos as Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In many heavily black cities, the only answer is to create school districts that spill over city boundaries into white suburbs. In the case of Washington, this would also involve two quite reluctant states...
...reinforced by an all-round frustration. "Nothing seems to work properly any more," says Political Analyst William Pfaff. "Industry makes cheap goods but wrecks the landscape and pollutes the air and rivers. Technocrats tell us all problems are soluble, but their submarines sink at the dock and scientific administrators spill nerve gas onto grazing lands and then lie about it. Bureaucracies make the system function, but they meddle in private lives...
...major calamity. In the past five years 94 tankers have foundered; two collisions occur every week. Then there is the rising risk of dangerous pollution from offshore oil wells. Last spring a presidential panel investigating the Santa Barbara Channel blowout concluded that the U.S. faces one major oil spill every year after...
...Santa Barbara oil spill...
NASA officials decided that Clifford Frondel, professor of Minerology, may have been exposed to what they called "a biological spill" after a researcher discovered a hole in one of the protective plastic gloves used to handle lunar material...