January 15, 1980

HOUSTON, Jan. 14 After the most significant slowdown in a decade, the pace of oil and gas drilling in the United States has quickened markedly in recent weeks.

TUCSON, ARIZ. WHEN scientists and developers used to speak of making deserts bloom, they had in mind vast irrigation projects nourishing cotton, fruits and vegetables, crops transplanted from humid regions. The successes have been many, but the deserts keep...

IN A LABORATORY that doubles as a lounge at Harvard University, a pack-a-day student sits studying. She can smoke when ever she wants, but when she does light up, she has to use a plastic cigarette holder.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 14 Out here in the rugged Afghan countryside, a harsh brown land of mountains and deserts, the Soviet troops who came two weeks ago are rarely seen anymore, though they are much discussed in tones of fear and hatred.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 With a warning that lung cancer among American women is increasing dramatically, the Surgeon General of the United States said today that within three years lung cancer could become the leading cancer killer of women, overtaking breast cancer.