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...under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed their way through 24 miles of undersea chalk. Said a spokesman for TransManche Link, the Anglo-French consortium responsible for design and construction: "It was like throwing out a line to the moon and getting within a 10-ft. circle." The remaining 325 or so feet of chalk separating the two tunnels will now be excavated, and on Dec. 1, nearly three years after digging began, a large...
...Poppers identified 139,000 sq. mi. as poor and emptying, and they suggested that through a consortium of public and private owners and institutions, the world's largest game preserve be created and woven around those areas that are still viable. Government payments would be used to idle the marginal land and support owners for as long as 30 years while they planned a new life. The cost? "Billions," acknowledges Frank Popper, "but less than the current subsidy programs...
Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
...National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will be located at Florida State University but run by a consortium that includes the University of Florida in Gainesville and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is run by California's state universities...
These appearances prove that the clever dictator is working all the angles to shore up his position. Baghdad has yet to gain a major ally, and few cracks have fractured the international consortium ranged against it. Iraq's economy and morale are under siege, its pipelines closed, supply routes in doubt and food supplies dwindling. The unattractive nature of his options must be coming clear to Saddam...