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Communism
By The Associated Press
Long after communism is forgotten,
its legacy will linger in the
poisoned bodies and environment
of the vast region it once ruled.
"No other great industrial civilization
so systematically and so
long poisoned its land, air, water
and people," write the authors of
"Ecocide in the USSR," a book detailing
the environmental degrada
uon or tne soviet union.
Among the findings:
In 1990, the life expectancy of
Moscow residents was 10 years
below what it was in 1970.
Nearly three-fourths of surface
water in the former Soviet Union
is classified as polluted, and onethird
of that total is untreated.
The Soviet government banned
use of the pesticide DDT in 1970,
two years before the United States
acted. But use of DDT in Soviet
agriculture continued secretly until
the late 1980s.
Because of the intense use of
pesticides in rice growing areas of
the Caucasus "in some farming vil- 1
lages of that district, cancer is the 1
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scribe a health care system beset
by ill-trained doctors and shortages ^ov
of such basic materials as aspirin stnkin
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cardiogram," wrote Feshbach and banne<
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nticipated in the doing at USC," Byrd said,
er a final phase Dawson agrees,
signed machine. "Each group of researchers
collaboration of brings something different into the
ities a perfect project. The two schools compliment
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Schalkoff works with vision systems
and Dawson works with manipulation
tasks.
Byrd and Pettus will work to integrate
the specialties of the three
Clemson professors into the robot's
overall computer software
and hardware operating system.
"Professor Byrd is the father of
this project. It was his dream,"
Pettus said.
are working.
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more like a business. I don't think
we'll lose a certain sensitivity or
academic institutions, but business
concepts just by necessity have to
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