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...Europe - but most experts believe that's only temporary and expect to see significantly higher costs to heat and cool our homes in the future. For poor families, especially those on fixed incomes, a drafty house can eat up a large chunk of their income in the winter. The leakier the home, the more money you're wasting - and the more carbon you're spewing. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...lost there by an unlucky TV crew, courtesy of a partly submerged log. No problem. By now we're at ease in our rafts; the blue one steered by Pat and dubbed the QE2 for its superior buoyancy and comfort; the Red Devil under Dan's control, a little leakier, a little lower in the water and a lot more daring under the 19-year-old guide's cool hand. Aboard the QE2 your chances of getting through a low-grade rapid without having to kick off a rock or get out and pull are much higher...
Political Ammunition. According to Lacerda, the government is destroying Brazil, and the man primarily responsible is Economics Minister Roberto Campos, 48, a former Ambassador to the U.S. and an internationally acclaimed economist (TIME, Aug. 2). Campos, cried Lacerda, is "a mental weakling" whose plans are "leakier than a boardinghouse showerhead." On the one hand, Lacerda accused Campos of selling out to U.S. businessmen by offering favorable deals to investors; on the other, he railed that Campos had throttled Brazil's development by imposing an unduly harsh austerity. "Instability, insecurity and disorder have been succeeded by depression, perplexity, gloom...
...ships had reported that below-decks cargo space was filled with U. S. copper, steel ingots and brass scrap. He told of "millions of brass slugs from slot machines" being transshipped from the U. S. For the so-called U. S. embargo on war materials for Japan is even leakier than the Canadian. Only U. S. bans are on iron and steel scrap, allowing other scrap metals to go through unchecked, and on aviation gasoline, which simply forces Japan to crack unrestricted low-test fuels in its own plants. Other exports are subject to a licensing system, which...