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...plant's critics, opposing Con Ed's request, charge that Indian Point No. 2 will wreak ecological havoc on the Hudson and decimate its fish population. They say that the company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
Such reversals had already been found to have coincided with the extinction of many species of plants and animals (TIME, Nov. 30). This led Durrani and Khan to speculate about what kind of event could cause the reversals and wreak the other damage at the same time. They concluded that the earth's magnetic field may be so precariously balanced (171 reversals in the past 76 million years) that even a small jolt would be enough to upset it. Such a jolt, they argue in a recent issue of Nature, could easily have been caused by a comet...
...American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...major problem with the massive use of de-icing salts-in addition to the havoc they wreak on automobile underbodies-is that they damage roadside vegetation and, more important, seep into nearby water supplies. The salts not only give the water a brackish taste, but can be a genuine health hazard as well. In Massachusetts, 62 communities were warned by the state health department last year that their drinking water contained enough sodium to endanger the lives of people with heart or kidney ailments who were on strict low-salt diets. Tests in Minnesota disclosed that even the anticorrosive additives...
...portfolio should be emphasized. A student would be allowed to change letter grades to passes any time after receiving the grades. And he would be permitted, indeed encouraged, to defer including samples of his work in the portfolio until he decided what constituted his best efforts. (Unlimited substitutions would wreak havoc on the Registrar's office...