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...requiring increased water flows at the dams. Farmers, manufacturers and utilities are worrying about the consequences. In Lewiston, a port 748 km (465 miles) inland on the Snake River in Idaho, port director Ron McMurray says barge traffic may be halted several months a year, forcing farmers to transport cargo by rail or truck. Ron Reimann, who farms 1,295 hectares (3,200 acres) in Pasco, Wash., estimates that it will cost him $1.3 % million if he has to move his irrigation pumps to accommodate lower water levels. In addition, electricity rates are expected to rise as much...
Considering that there are 350 million tons of ozone in the stratosphere, it would take 350,000 trips by specially outfitted 747 freighters, which can carry 100 tons of cargo, to replace even a tenth of the protective gas. Alternatively, climate engineers could shoot multi-ton bullets made up of frozen ozone into the upper reaches of atmosphere. But the technology for designing and building the tens of thousands of big guns that would be required does not yet exist -- not to mention the fact that compressed ozone is dangerously explosive. Furthermore, neither of these solutions attacks the heart...
...cargo planes began delivering 300,000 lbs. of surplus food to Moscow and St. Petersburg last week, adding to the stream of emergency supplies pouring in from the West. Such timely help will certainly be welcome, but it cannot solve the long-term problems of a country that simply did not learn how to feed itself during seven decades of communist rule. Nor can it ease the bitterness of many citizens who, though they never enjoyed abundance, remember how they once lived in a superpower rather than a patchwork quilt of fledgling states reduced to begging for help. If Yeltsin...
...poinsettia plants in Florida greenhouses, reproduces twice as fast as its relatives and consumes five times as much food from its victims. It comes originally from somewhere halfway around the world, possibly Iraq or Pakistan, and apparently reached America in 1986, probably hidden away in a cargo shipment...
...true. We had a cargo warehouse in the Caribbean, and we had a guy there guarding it all night long. I was reviewing the budget, and I wanted to reduce costs. My people said we needed him to prevent thefts. So I said, Put him on part time and rotate his nights so nobody knows when he will be there. And the next year I wanted to reduce costs, and I told them, Why don't we substitute a dog? Turn a dog loose in the warehouse. So we did, and it worked. Now the following year, I needed...