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...million samples once the facility opens Feb. 26. The specimens will be kept very dry at around 0°F. Properly stored, some seeds can last thousands of years; even if the facility lost power, the seeds are likely to remain viable in the Arctic climate. The cost of construction???mostly borne by the Norwegian government?is less than $9 million. "If you think of it as an insurance policy for the world, you can't beat the value," says Fowler...
Electronics, oil, food processing, insurance, Savings and Loan associations, construction???all have been added to the spectrum of California's economic life. Not the least of the benefits of this vitality is the workers' share. California's wage earners constitute a mass aristocracy that takes home about $1.5 billion every week; their per capita income ($4,111) is higher than that of any other state or any country on earth. Here too, think tanks like the Rand Corp. have evolved and become indispensable. With extraordinary skill ?and hubris?their staffers tackle virtually every problem in America, from campus riots...
...will open up a potentially rich region in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, while its railroad opponents see the new line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well as permit new railroad construction???will probably cause the Union Pacific to take the case into the courts. The Commission itself was not all sure, split 7 to 4 on the question. Dissenters were Commissioners Brainerd, Farrell, Porter, Woodlock...
Study of a new type of construction???hollow metal body with curved side extensions replacing distinct wings?has led German engineers to predict ships of 150 tons, 20,000 tons...
...Harvard prize play, seems not uninfluenced by the Cambridge atmosphere?exceedingly polite, witty, moderately well-dressed. Below this brilliantly prepared surface is a foundation theme of considerable consequence. Strongly in its favor is the symmetry of its construction???a virtue lacking in The Potters, a staccato satire on middle class husbands...
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