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University officials in the past have stressed that the economic success of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant depends on its "co-generation" of steam, chilled water and electricity in one facility. If Harvard is not allowed to build the diesel generators that would produce electricity, the project may be a financial failure...
...these planes against Israel?" As it is, the Saudis along with Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, plan to spend $10 billion to construct a new military-manufacturing city of 80,000 to 100,000 people 35 miles southeast of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Its purpose: to build air-to-air and air-to-surface missile systems...
...idea is to build self-esteem by showing youngsters they can cope with fear. Says Former Phys Ed Teacher Kenneth Musko, who developed the program: "Some of them do panic, but you'd be surprised how most of them cope with new situations that normally would terrify them." A few of the 52 stress activities seem particularly dangerous: riding through rapids on a rubber raft, rock climbing and "parasailing" (hanging from a parachute while being towed by a truck). One prosaic activity-incarceration at a nearby jail or detention center-is supposed to show the students the life they...
...most consumers, rising interest rates are an ill wind: they inflate the cost of borrowing to buy or build. But, to bend a proverb, the rise may soon blow some good to one group: savers...
...technological science fiction by more sociological and humanitarian themes seems to be the main cause of the growth of interest in science fiction among the general public, said Richard Gruen, a fan who traveled from California to attend Boskone. "A story that used to talk about how to build a colony on the moon today would talk about how people manage under those conditions," he said...