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...taking quarterbacks apart and putting them back together again also affected Montana's spirit. Recognizing the opponent's quandary in preparing for both -- Montana is a drop-back passer, Young a rollout runner -- Walsh coyly invented a quarterback controversy. He cut it out only when Joe started rolling steel balls in a clenched fist while quoting Y.A. Tittle on the three ages of athletic life. "Y.A. told me that when you're young, they love you. When you're in the middle, they hate you. But when you're old, they love you again...
...over the next century, as some scientists have predicted? One option would be to construct levees and dikes. The Netherlands, after all, has flourished more than 12 ft. below sea level for hundreds of years. Its newest bulwark is a 5.6-mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured landmarks against Adriatic storms without doing ecological...
...systematic garbage collection. The Machida plant can deal with almost any category of recyclable refuse: burnables, nonburnables, bottles, cans, durables such as furniture and refrigerators, and "harmfuls" like batteries. Depending on their category, the castoffs are filtered, burned, crushed or otherwise treated on their way to becoming reusable materials. Steel scrap is separated from other garbage by huge magnets. Much of the recycling is computer-controlled: only 45 people work in shifts to run the round-the-clock operation...
...advised dam construction and inappropriate irrigation projects have caused the level of the Aral Sea to drop 40 ft. It is possible that this body of water, the world's sixth largest sea, will not exist in 20 years. Siberia, once pristine, is laced with wastes from steel, chemical and coal industries. Worrisome numbers of dead sturgeon are floating atop the polluted Volga River, threatening the Soviets' prestigious caviar supply. Resorts along the Black Sea have banned swimming after the government's warning that the waters are contaminated with dysentery and typhoid germs...
...passing Ilyushin 76 cargo plane had somehow clipped the tail of a parked Air Europe Boeing 757. Both aircraft were stuck in place. I tried to explain to an ever changing group of airport workers that the British pilot needed a small tow truck and strong steel cables to move his plane forward...