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This week, Environment's first cover story deals at length with the fascinating work of Ecologist Barry Commoner, leader of a tiny band of once sheltered scientists who have suddenly risen to prominence and sometimes sound like new Jeremiahs. In addition to the regular Environment staff, the month-long project drew on the talents of Writer Peter Stoler, Correspondents Sam Iker and Alan Anderson, Researchers Hilary Ostlere and Marguerite Michaels. The story, we feel, is in line with our promise of six months ago that the new section would report the good with the bad, would listen to optimists...
Fresh from nearly a month's vacation and eager to face the challenges of a new decade, members of the 91st Congress reconvened last week and got right to work-trying to pass a money bill that should have cleared their chambers in the spring of 1969. The bill is one that will fund most operations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for fiscal 1970, a year that began last July. It takes in almost all of the Government's aid to education, including funds for libraries, student loans, vocational training and ghetto schools. The congressional...
...industry to St. Clair. He also expresses growing admiration for the Muslims. "The more I find out about the Muslims, the better I like 'em," he says. "They don't believe in smoking, drinking or adultery: they have no interest in white women; they believe in hard work and segregation...
...Muslims have proved themselves exemplary neighbors. Similar Muslim farms operate in Michigan and Georgia, and neither has encountered the resistance met in Alabama. Both have small work forces recruited from local labor, and local white businessmen have been highly pleased with the operation. The Muslims, in fact, offered to fly St. Clair County businessmen to Georgia to inspect the farm there and hear white testimonials, but so far there have been few takers...
...bill now goes to the floor of both houses of the legislature, where it will undoubtedly face a stiff fight. Last night, a Harvard Administration source expressed surprise at the quick action by the committee and said, "We'll have to do some hard work on this one, because quite a few of our so-called friends in the legislature are not friends on the Stadium issue...