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...world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to be "nature's most fearsome predators," but what will happen when there is hardly anything left to keep the ecosystem in balance? FRED CESAR Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
...urgent need to turn our fishermen into farmers--sea farmers. Rather than battling over fishing rights, nations should be establishing giant seafood farms in the multiplicity of bays and gulfs on our planet. If we are to survive, aquaculture must become as ordinary as agriculture. GILLIAM CLARKE Wesley Chapel, Fla...
...ORLANDO, Fla: The most frightening thing at Disney World used to be Space Mountain. Now, it's mosquitoes. After Florida health officials sounded the alarm this week that some of the blood-sucking critters may carry St. Louis encephalitis ? a virus-born ailment which damages the brain ? the company decided to close its three water parks and swimming pools an hour early each day, to protect sunbathing vacationers during peak feeding time. Meanwhile Mickey and Goofy will continue to work full shifts at Disney's three theme parks, where spraying has already taken place. Not taking any chances, the Magic...
...like a neatly packaged, over-the-counter cure for a financial headache. In need of cash for new public health campaigns on smoking and violence, the American Medical Association decided to turn to the Sunbeam Corp. While best known for its food mixers, blenders and toasters, the Delray Beach, Fla., company also makes medical equipment--thermometers, heating pads and blood-pressure monitors. Under an arrangement that could conceivably net the association millions of dollars a year in royalties, last week it gave Sunbeam exclusive rights to fix the A.M.A. seal on some of the firm's health-care products...
Peddlers of phony investment schemes often troll for prospects by visiting churches, country clubs or senior-citizen centers, says Tallahassee, Fla., comptroller Robert Milligan. (Not only in Florida, either. The Olive Branch Center in Sun City has had to institute tight screening provisions to keep con artists out of its weekly meetings.) The scammers often perform a legitimate service, such as income-tax preparation, to win the confidence of an elderly customer before pitching a fraudulent investment...