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Last week Ralph Nader offered a gloomy answer: a 700-page report entitled Water Wasteland, the product of a 21-month study by one of Nader's numerous teams of "raiders." Despite 15 years of effort, seven laws and more than $3 billion in expenditures, say the researchers, the federal program to curb water pollution is "a miserable failure...
...described as "behind schedule." More huge reserves will be tapped in Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Even the landowners who stand to gain the most from sale of their property fear the result: 42,000 sq. mi. of land-an area larger than Ohio-might be turned into a sterile wasteland...
Scientists disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
Laos has been deeply involved in the war for more than a decade now, and this week's Allied incursion into the remote southern part of the country-an area already reduced to a cratered wasteland by nearly four months of round-the-clock ?aids by U.S. B-52 bombers-can hardly make things much worse...
Nietzsche said, long ago, "The wasteland grows." I am afraid it does...