Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERKINS: EDITOR OF GENIUS by A. Scott Berg Dutton; 498 pages...
While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...
...talk. The Saudis are currently spending $15 billion on the largest desalination program in the world?and seriously pondering a plan for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to provide fresh water for a country that has not a single permanent river. The estimated cost of that: $80 million per berg. They are putting up $14 billion for a project that will bring natural gas to the newly planned industrial cities of Yanbo on the Red Sea and Jubail on the Persian Gulf, which are costing $30 billion to build. In the past three years, the Saudis have built nearly...
...commonly set in until around the second year, when the mother stops nursing. A branch of the World Health Organization has found that because of the decline of breast-feeding, deaths from malnutrition now peak in the third and fourth months. According to World Bank nutritionist Dr. Alan Berg, the past two decades have seen the average age of the onset of malnutrition drop from 18 to eight months in several of the countries he studies. This difference in age is critical because the first two years after birth is the most vulnerable period of brain development...
...adolescence he felt rather a misfit, as gifted children do. He went to high school in Bucharest ? a school photo shows him at twelve, the liquid gray eyes and budding prow of a nose beneath a military cap ? but, as Stein berg remembers it, "my education, my reassurance, my comportment came out of reading literature. I found my real world, and my real friends, in books." At ten, "much too early," he read Maxim Gorky; by twelve, he was devouring Crime and Punishment; from France, there were heavy doses of Jules Verne, Emile Zola and Anatole France, "whose...