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Top Secret: You Could Die
The Clinton administration proposed a bill Friday that would let Americans living near dangerous chemicals know the casualty estimates for a worst-case accident in their region, while attempting to keep the information out of the hands of terrorists who might use it to plan an attack. The EPA last fall considered posting detailed worst-case chemical […]
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Going, Going … Gabon
Even as gorillas and chimpanzees in Central Africa are being wiped out by hunters, scientists are sounding the alarm that the animals need to be saved because they may be the key to finding a cure for AIDS. In January, scientists announced that H.I.V.-1, the most common AIDS virus, came from a subspecies of chimpanzee […]
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David Dobbs, New England environmental author
David Dobbs writes about the environment, community, and science from his home in Vermont. A contributor to Audubon, Sierra, Vermont Life, Popular Science, and other magazines, he is co-author of The Northern Forest and is now writing a book on the New England fishery, to be published next year. Sunday, 9 May 1999 MONTPELIER, Vt. […]
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Will the military protect the West's last best place?
As parks and forests in the West get overrun by tourists who love too much, the millions of acres controlled by the Department of Defense are suddenly looking sexier. In the Sonoran desert, for example, the last best place is a bombing range. It is a sign of the times that the 2.7 million-acre Barry […]
