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...heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little or no interest in curbing pollutants, to comply with the tough new federal standards...
...also a good way to get yourself into the NHL. Within two weeks of winning the gold medal. Silk had signed with the Rangers. He played two games for New York and then finished the '79-'80 season at the Ranger farm club in New Haven. He spent the tail end of last year at New Haven, after scoring 14 goals and 12 assists over 59 games for denizens of Madison Square Garden. Now, though, with Silk running well ahead of last season's pace with 10 goals and 17 assists in 40 games--he has missed about the last...
...will having Lau healthy for the stretch run. He has played every minute of every ECAC game for Harvard this season, except for the tail-end of the season-opening 11-1, trouncing of Dartmouth, and the knee injury that felled him in practice the day before the squad left for Princeton last February has completely healed...
...Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane's wings and tail, and could have acted as a drag on the aircraft as it took off during a snowstorm (see following story...
...person most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known at first simply as "the man in the water." (Balding, probably in his 50s, an extravagant mustache.) He was seen clinging with five other survivors to the tail section of the airplane. This man was described by Usher and Windsor as appearing alert and in control. Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers. In a mass casualty, you'll find people like him," said Windsor. "But I've never seen...