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...rush hour. The city of Plato and Pericles is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage and sanitation facilities, hemmed in by mountains and the sea, its 135 sq. mi. crammed with 3.7 million people. Even Athens' ruins are in ruin: sulfur dioxide eats away at the marble of the Parthenon, the Erechtheum and other treasures on the Acropolis. As Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis has said, "The only solution for Athens would be to demolish half of it and start all over again...
Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year...
...bravado was quickly underscored by a rash of surcharge announcements. Algeria and Libya both added $4-per-bbl. premiums to their much-in-demand low-sulfur oil, as did Nigeria, a nation that has made a practice of haphazardly squandering its petrodollars almost as blithely as Americans waste oil. Kuwait, Iran and Venezuela tacked on $1.20-per-bbl. surcharges. Mexico, though not an OPEC member, also got in on the gouging game; it added...
...summer adjournment in 1977. Enforcement regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would sharply tighten the already strict standards on pollution emissions and make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove sulfur pollution from exhaust smoke. The scrubbers cost $80 million or more for an average-size, 800-megawatt generating plant. What really upsets coalmen is that the regulations would force utilities to use scrubbers to remove up to 85% of sulfur pollutants even from coal that has virtually no sulfur content...
...thor manages to combine the traditions of Dostoyevsky's brooding victims with Gogol's antic farceurs. The more benign psychiatrists, he notes, diagnosed opposition as a mild form of paranoia that did not require special treatment. The hardliners called it "creeping schizophrenia" and prescribed agonizing sulfur injections...