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...other tall buildings. This "highrise spine," as planners call it, formed an impressive skyline but failed to mitigate the disaster on the ground: early in the 1960s, 9.5 acres of living, breathing, historic city right next to Copley Square was torn up to form a sunken tangle of railroad tracks and turnpike ramps. The gash also divided the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods...
...unusually early, so the herds had only a brief time for winter foraging. Now much of the sagebrush and other shrubs is covered by a layer of snow so thick and crusty that the hungry animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains in one week in Carbon County, Wyo. Where prey go, predators follow: coyotes are coming close to towns to eat deer. Or whatever. "Archibald, my cat, won't go out at night any more," says D.J. Bassett of Jackson...
Moreover, for many tribes Reagan'a cheerful plans for business development are simply unworkable, given reservations' desolation and isolation. The Navahos of Arizona live on top of $2.5 billion worth of coal, but can't get to it without a $100 million railroad. And this is not to mention the potential envrionmental problems posed by such an endeavor...
Conte said he had supported an unsuccessful University of Massachusetts at Amherst bid, and was not trying to railroad the contract through to Cambridge...
...unemployment is also an increasing concern. Cohen-Orgad acknowledges that the fig ure may triple, to 30,000 (2.5%), this year. There has already been widespread la bor unrest. Defense minis try employees have been on a work slowdown for two months. Last week the nation's railroad workers went out on strike, while postal employees caused major disruptions in mail service and all 60,000 of the country's civil servants went on strike for three hours...