Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents to apply for abortions each year and faces the possibility that an invasion from outside the state and city may swell the applicant total to 250,000 or even 500,000. New York's other major cities expect a comparable demand that may well swamp their hospital facilities...
Around Lakeland, phosphate miners are tearing huge holes in the earth that endanger the local water table. At the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, drainage ditches for new housing may interrupt the already imperiled water flow into the Everglades. To the north, Walt Disney Productions is building a City of Tomorrow for 50,000 people that may cut off some of Orlando's water supply, since the site is atop porous soil that lets rainwater into Florida's vital aquifer. That underground layer of limestone stores much of the state's annual 57 inches of rainfall...
...Unfortunately, the basin forms a unique "hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...
...Saved by Swamp. Oddly enough, Farmer Franco's artichokes helped preserve the 2,300-year-old frescoes from the destruction that has overtaken other Greek mural painting. The Paestum paintings were preserved because its river silted up and turned the area into a malarial swamp. For centuries, moisture seeping into the tombs from the swampy waters kept the paint from drying up and flaking off the stone walls. When the swamps were filled in 1944, the roots of the artichokes continued to keep the tombs moist...
...wanting, and are now looking for something gentler and more profound. I hope we'll hear from kids all over the country." Senior Editor Timothy Foote predicts that there will be regrets that, though the story deals with rock in general, TIME "has not said half enough about swamp rock, soul rock, jazz rock." Contributing Editor Jay Cocks and Researcher Molly Bowditch did much of the reporting on The Band's members. "The choice is controversial," says Molly, "because they are not unanimous favorites like the Beatles. But I've played one of their records 400 times...