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only one of his kind in a lifetime. But bigness is not synonymous with excellence. Selective pressure might revive ingenuity--something Galileo had, even if he didn't have a Fisher catalog. Incidental- ly, how, without a clock, did he determine the relationship of time and distance for a falling object? National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 20205, U.S.A. (fcs)

80:6187 Oettinger, A. G., 1980. Information rescurees:

knowledge and power in the 21st century. Science, 209(4452): 191-198.

Any organization, from a cell to a government, requires material (for substance), energy (for motion), and information (for direction). The former two are widely perceived as necessary resources to survival, but only recently has infor- mation been recognized as so fundamental. As a resource on the social level, its acquisition and accessibility are closely related to issues of political and economic power. And at present, the means of acquiring, storing, transmitting, and accessing in- formation are growing explosively. The old paradigms (governing older means) no longer ap- ply. New paradigms, and future ones, have yet to be tested for social value. Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, U.S.A. (fcs)

80:6188 Palacio, F. J., 1980. The development of mar ine

science in Latin America. Oceanus, 23(2): 39- 49. Tinker Center for Tropical Marine Coastal Studies in Latin America, University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and At- mospheric Science, Miami, Fla., U.S.A.

80:6189 Wetherill, G. W. and C. L. Drake, 1980. The Ear th

and planetary sciences [present and future frontiers]. Science, 209(4452): 96-103.

The Earth can be viewed as a 'complex ther- momechanical system' driven ultimately by nuclear energy. During the past 20 years, accep- tance of plate tectonic theory has led to the inter- pretation of the topography and surface structures of the Earth as byproducts of 'major horizontal movements of very large fragments of the Earth's ou te r she l l . ' P l a n e t a r y e x p l o r a t i o n has demonstrated the presence of ancient volcanics on the moon, a massive carbon dioxide atmosphere with an abundance of noble gases on Venus, and only a s l ight ca rbon d i o x i d e - - a l m o s t waterless--atmosphere on Mars which, curiously, envelops a surface apparently eroded by running water. There is no evidence to date for plate motion

on the moon, Mars, Mercury, or Venus, but future research is likely to include more detailed com- parisons of the planets and the factors affecting their evolution. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. 20015, U.S.A. (hbf)

17. Marine policy and law, leases, treaties, etc.

80:6190 Beinecke, Frances and S. P. Chamberlain, 1980.

Coastal zone management reauthorization: a l ternat ive views. Bull. coast. Soc., 4(1): 4-8.

The current required reauthorization of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 provides an opportunity to assess the impact of the eight-year- old program and to amend some of its in- adequacies. Two views are presented in this short article; one explains the need for a more com- prehensive, resource-oriented program and the other emphasizes industries' energy facility siting requirements. (bwt)

18. Waste disposal and pollution 80:6191

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Advisory Committee on Marine Pollution, 1980. Report of the Advisory Committee on Marine Pollution, 1979. ICES coop. Res. Rept, 92:31 pp.

Topics covered in this report include: pollution of the Baltic and North Atlantic; monitoring programs, criteria and standards; ocean dumping; waste incineration at sea; response to an oil pollu- tion incident; hydrocarbon measurements; con- taminant transport; sediment-pollutant in- terchange; heavy metal and organochlorine inter- calibrations; and deep-sea dispersion and mixing emphasizing the eastern Atlantic. Palaegade 2-4, DK-1261 Copenhagen K, Denmark. (izs)

80:6192 Ishikawa, Tadao and Yoshikazu Ikegaki, 1980.

Control of mercury pollution in Japan and the Minamata Bay cleanup. J. War. PoUut. ControI Fed., 52(5): 1013-1018.

Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease have both been traced to methyl mercury com- pounds contained in industrial waste water and concentrated in fish and shellfish in Minamata Bay and elsewhere. As a result, the Japanese have