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True, a genuine restructuring of the U.S. landscape that would reverse the flow of black migrants from farms to crowded cities would ease the problems of the ghetto, perhaps even give the hard-pressed cities time and room enough to do more in eradicating slums. To some extent, improving the quality of life of any American sooner or later improves the quality of life of all Americans: water, air and green space know no class or color distinctions. The President quotes Theodore Roosevelt in a special statement in the current issue of FORTUNE magazine, which is devoted to environment. Roosevelt...
...also stopped the flow of silt down the Nile, which in the past offset the natural erosion of the land from the Nile delta. As a result, downstream erosion may wash away as much productive farm land as is opened up by new irrigation systems around Lake Nasser. Without the nutrient-rich silt reaching the Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have...
...cities and towns will need $10 billion by 1975 just to meet current water quality standards, plus an additional $6 billion to build and repair sewer lines under city streets. It will take even more for municipalities to go further and separate the main and storm sewers that now flow together to contribute so heavily to the pollution problem. This would push the total cost to $50 billion...
...newest and hottest oil scramble last week centered on what has traditionally been one of the industry's most lucrative fields of endeavor: Washington. At issue is the Nixon Administration's policy, now in the formative stage, for dealing with the flow of cheap foreign oil into the U.S. The report of a Cabinet Task Force recommending changes in the current system of restrictive import quotas is expected to land on the President's desk this week. Its contents are officially secret, but enough details have already leaked to roil the industry and start what promises...
...Traynor thinks that the country has too many laws, especially those that clog the courts with auto cases and those that "try to legislate morals." He has certainly studied the subject. Once a law professor at Berkeley (his alma mater), Traynor has enriched his judicial career with a prodigious flow of law-review articles. Next month he will return to scholarship as a visiting law professor at the University of Virginia. He also chairs an American Bar Association committee that is drafting a new code of ethics for judges in response to the Abe Fortas case. For Traynor...