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Until St. Helens' sudden reawakening, many Americans had blithely assumed that most of the volcanoes of their own Northwest were "dead." But scientists knew better. Only two years ago, two volcanologists from the Geological Survey made a perspicacious forecast. They wrote, "In the future, Mount St. Helens probably will erupt violently and intermittently just as it has in the recent life past, and these future eruptions will affect human life and health, property, agriculture and general economic welfare over a broad area...
Though the figures made gloomy reading, President Carter pressed ahead with his Pollyannaish forecast, telling accounting firm executives that recently lowered interest rates and a hoped-for drop in inflation by this summer mean that the nation has "turned the corner" on the economy. In fact, it looks as if U.S. business has turned the corner and come face-to-face with an unexpected precipice...
Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island/Warner Bros.). The weather forecast on the far frontiers of rock is a little cold and spooky, if this record is any indication. Alternately rigorous and unhinged, steam-heated and strangulated, Second Edition is the collective work of the band John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) formed when he broke with the Sex Pistols. The Pistols' music was like a mugging; Public Image's is like a football match in purgatory. Using repeated chords, shattered rhythms and lyrics that sound like electrocuted William Burroughs ("Spreading tales/ Like coffin nails/ Is this living"), Public Image...
Proposition 2 1/2, largely the product of greedy Bay State businessmen able to manipulate public opinion, looms threateningly, but the future is as gloomy as a March weather forecast even without the new law. As inflation drains the city's buying power, cutbacks in federal and state aid empty Cambridge's coffers. There are two ways out--but neither make sense in the strange algebra of American politics. An overhaul of the state's tax system would help cities by lessening dependence on the regressive local property tax and by increasing state income taxes. But before state legislators boost taxes...
...Chicago suburbanite who is all too routinely exposed to 8-in. snowfalls forecast the night before as "possible flurries," I have always been annoyed by the amount of time devoted to a weather report of doubtful reliability. I, for one. would happily settle for 30 sec. or less of: "As far as I can tell, tomorrow's weather will...