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Like most rural areas, Long Island's Suffolk County has no major sewer system and, except in the largest towns, cannot afford to build one in the near future. Because Suffolk's 1,200,000 residents depend on backyard cesspools and septic tanks, household wastes that do not break down in natureespecially detergentseventually seep into the underground water supply. As a result, more and more drinking water flows out of the tap with a smelly foam that tastes awful and perhaps affects human health...
...greatest prizes of antiquity: Praxiteles' long-lost statue of her namesake, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Earlier this year, Miss Love, 37, announced that she had unearthed the remains of the small circular temple that housed the famed nude. Last week the Long Island University professor unveiled an even greater surprise. She reported that she had found the head of the statue itself...
Both deals were based on a compromise. Initially, China told both Ottawa and Rome that they would have to recognize Communist sovereignty over Taiwan. Headquarters for the Nationalist Chinese since 1949, the island has become an increasingly prosperous and militarily potent entity, with a greater population (14 million) than nearly three quarters of the United Nations' 127 members. In the end, Peking settled for vague statements from the two that they "take note" of the Communist claim. As soon as Canada and Italy recognized the Communists, Taiwan broke off relations with them...
...feels he witnessed wholesale indifference to the fate of the Vietnamese people. When his Vietnamese workers on one agricultural program were deprived of six months' pay by a Vietnamese provincial administrator, he was told by U.S. and Vietnamese officials it was none of his affair. When an entire island was defoliated by U.S. planes, Luce asked $10,000 restitution for lost crops. A U.S. official told him: "The whole damn country is not worth $10,000." He switched to journalism in 1967, and ever since, his strongly antiwar attitude has led him to concentrate on revealing the damage...
Brown has a losing series record against every team it plays except URI, and Rhode Island didn't score a point during the first 17 years of the series...