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Despite these dire projections, the Panama Canal Commission has reacted coolly. Says David Baerg, the group's environmental and energy-control officer: "We are not in a crisis situation, where things have to be changed immediately." Heckadon disagrees. He has called for the formation of a body like the Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Trouble Ahead for the Canal? | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

There are some state-level models for the civilian component of a national- service plan, most notably the California Conservation Corps. Created in 1976, it currently enlists 2,200 young men and women in a twelve-month program that includes fighting floods and forest fires, maintaining parks and clearing streams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enlisting With Uncle Sam | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

"Requests to the government offices have indicated that [Massachusetts] is interested in energy conservation, not energy physics," Glashow said.

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Physicists Lobby for Particle Accelerator | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

Operating quietly and unknown to most Americans, the conservancy has in the ! past three decades bought hundreds of similarly fragile environments. From its headquarters in Arlington, Va., it now oversees a 2.61 million-acre empire that includes more than 1,000 species of threatened plants and animals. "We have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Conservation's Best-Kept Secret | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

In an interview with TIME, Gray suggested that one way of raising revenue might be to impose a "temporary" surcharge on foreign imports that would last no more than three years. Gray estimated that higher fees on imports could raise anywhere from $10 billion to $30 billion annually, depending on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pie in The Sky | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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