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Developer David Santini, 39, a wealthy soil engineer, claims that his plastic slope is the "best artificial track in the world." It is covered with white polyethylene molded into bristly triangles and slick circles. Before taking off, skiers coat their skis with oil from a spinning roller. Although runs down the 1,200-ft. competition course reach speeds of 60 m.p.h., the synthetic snow seems unquestionably safer than the natural variety; no one has yet broken so much as a finger...
...After great deliberation and reflection, I have determined that it is in the national interest ... to grant a right-of-way permit for the trans-Alaska pipeline from the North Slope to the southern port of Valdez." In making that announcement last week, Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton explained that the U.S. will need at least 20 million barrels of oil per day by 1980, and that domestic production apart from Alaska will be only half that much. As for the rival route across Canada, he declared that the $3 billion, 770-mile Alaska line will be cheaper and quicker...
...rocks, and pushed over a large boulder to collect soil from underneath it (so scientists can compare the effects of cosmic-ray bombardment on varying soil samples). They drove the rover several hundred feet up Stone Mountain and, after parking it on what they thought was a dangerously steep slope, they simply picked it up and put it down in a more secure spot...
...important Alaskan question. He issued the department's ninevolume, $9,000,000 "impact statement" on the proposed trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The statement, a prerequisite to any major environmental decision, sets forth no specific recommendations. But its analysis of the various routes for taking oil from the North Slope appears to pave the way for Administration approval of the 789-mile pipeline that the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil companies, wants to build from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez in southern Alaska. Conservationists say that a pipeline across Canada...
...glances toward some nearby slope, the suffering Mr. Downhill may observe a strange-looking character in knickers and a light sweater striding cheerfully across the snow on a pair of flimsy-looking skis clamped to his feet with a scrap of aluminum or something. His boots look like G.I. brogans, and he seems to be having a great time. The knickered apparition is indulging in the fastest-growing winter sport in the world. It is variously called cross-country skiing (the competitive version) or ski touring (the recreational type), and this season is the biggest the sport has ever known...