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...deterioration. If Dana were to retrace his 19th century Boston-to-San Francisco voyage today, he would find much of the U.S. coastline spoiled by pollutants of one sort or another. The Department of the Interior reports "severe to moderate" modification of 73% of the 53,677-mile U.S. tidal shoreline...
Radioactive Leaks. Specifically, the committee and its seven co-plaintiffs (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and SANE) claim that the blast may trigger "a succession of earthquakes" (fault lines run from Alaska through Southern California), tsunamis or earthquake-produced tidal waves of "unpredictable size and direction," contaminate the surrounding ocean with radioactive materials and leak poisonous debris into the atmosphere...
Meantime, a tidal flow of nuptial in pursuit, and then blithely departed with his bride in the fifth...
MEASURED by the usual signs-the size of the tidal surges of money across national borders, the confusion of tourists caught with currency that no one would take, the tension at the emergency meeting of finance ministers -last week's international monetary crisis was certainly the worst since World War II. Even so, its true gravity could not be gauged by those factors alone. Precipitated by German Economics Minister Karl Schiller in order to get European agreement on new monetary measures, the upheaval at first seemed artificial and contrived. But it quickly became a pointed revolt against...
Then came the fatal blow: the New York Times review. The morning review in the Times is like a tidal wave which can either let you ride high on the crest of success or drown...