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We would be better off to put a plastic dome over Death Valley, air-condition it, pipe in the excess water we have in Lake Erie, and save millions of people instead of just a few thousand.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 16, 1975 | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

ITEM: The Energy Crisis. As every driver knows, automobiles, not nations, now stand accused of the abuse of power (65% of American workers inefficiently drive to their jobs-most of them sans passengers). Common sense, then, would dictate new attention-and funding-for railroads, buses and subways. Instead, the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Uncommonness of Common Sense | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Environmentalists are convinced that high costs alone will not be enough to discourage excessive use of energy. Thus they were dismayed when President Nixon's energy message failed to stress conservation as an important tool in blunting the crisis. Nonetheless, an unlikely coalition of industrial, political and environmental leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Energy Crisis: Time for Action | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

The Design School also paid a portion of the cost for the Chilled Water Plant, which is connected to the new Science Center. The Plant will air-condition Gund Hall and other new buildings north of the Yard, as well as the Science Center itself.

Author: By Steven M. Luxemberg, | Title: Gund Hall: A Reunion Is Set 7 Years Later | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Fouled Tube. For a while, it looked as if Wilson might have to wait a long time to use those special glasses. In what turned out to be an expensive economy measure, Batavia's builders had decided not to air-condition the main tunnel of the $250 million machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Batavia's Big Beam | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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