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The easiest, most direct way for people to make a difference is to watch what they throw away. Every year more than 220 million trees are cut down just to make U.S. newspapers, the majority of which are tossed into the trash. Americans discard enough aluminum cans each year to...
Conserving water is just as important as saving energy. Only 3% of the world's water is fresh, and 75% of that is locked away in glaciers and the polar ice caps. The scramble for what is left is growing ever more intense, as the water table falls and toxic...
Such grass-roots pressure gave added impetus to some major international initiatives. In Basel last March, 105 nations tentatively agreed to place strict curbs on international shipments of hazardous waste. Meeting in Helsinki in May, representatives of 86 countries declared their intention to phase out their production and use of...
Billy Markham is a talking blues about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could not possibly be any worse than the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his career. A gambler, boozer, womanizer and general hellion, Markham tosses away eternity in exchange for a single, futile roll of...
Yet even the Kremlin realizes that Article 6 as now written is out of date. This provision entered the Soviet constitution only in 1977, at the height of what is now denounced as the "era of stagnation." Sakharov and other liberals have made the repeal of Article 6 a litmus...