Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below Louisiana, Oklahoma and probably New Mexico. Just last week, Tenneco struck gas in the previously discouraging Baltimore Canyon, 80 miles off the New Jersey shore. Farther in the future, Ketelsen has hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed by the Administration, would bring Colorado's oil shale to the brink of profitability. In sum, says Ketelsen, "If we properly develop the energy sources we have in the Americas...
...comes happier news. Venice is still sinking ever so slightly from natural causes. But according to a team of scientists who have been watching water levels since 1969 in response to the worldwide hue and cry over the plight of Venice, subsidence from man-made effects has ceased. That, said Geologist Paolo Gatto, is "definitive and final...
...poem "Ode on Venice," Lord Byron prophesied a time "when thy marble walls/ Are level with the waters." By 1969, after nearly two decades of economic boom, the 19th century English poet's prediction seemed to be coming all too true. To slake the thirst of new industries on the mainland, some 20,000 wells were dug, tapping the water table that helps cushion Venice's more than 100 canal-cut islands. As a result, the fabled city of palaces and churches, frescoes and piazzas, began to sink at a frightening rate, gauged by scientists...
Venice's recovery has not been easy. Many wells have been capped; aqueducts now bring in water from the Po Valley. To reduce the smog that has been eating away at Venice's marbled monuments, factories have installed filters on smokestacks and homeowners are turning increasingly to natural gas instead of sulfurous coal. City fathers are also planning new sewage systems, as well as a widening of the shipping locks that lead into Venice's historic lagoon. All that should help ensure the survival of this crowning jewel of the Adriatic...
...start off, they shortened from two years to just four months the time that it usually takes females to mate, lay eggs and hatch their young. How? By cleverly manipulating water temperatures and light exposures within the blockhouses, so the lobsters were duped into thinking they had passed through two full years of seasonal changes when only one-sixth that time had elapsed. Also, because their eggs were released into a controlled environment, free of predators, the survival rate among infants increased to 95%. In addition, by hiking water temperatures to 22° C (72° F), the scientists caused...