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Economic Shoals. Stymied on shore by the states, the Federal Government is looking for solutions at sea. The Nixon Administration would like private industry to build some kind of "superport" in federally controlled waters beyond the states' three-mile jurisdiction. One proposal is to construct "monobuoys," which cost about $500 million and have already been tested off the coasts of the United Kingdom, Africa and Japan. Each buoy is moored 15 to 20 miles out to sea and connected by an underwater pipeline to shoreline facilities. Supertankers simply tie up to the buoy and pump oil into the pipeline...
Later verified by experiment, the so-called Josephson effect has been widely used to construct extremely sensitive laboratory measuring devices, including a magnetometer that can detect fluctuations in a magnetic field only one five-billionth as strong as the earth's. But IBM scientists found a more practical use. They knew that they could produce a voltage drop across a Josephson junction by applying a weak magnetic field; generating that field would require only a fraction of the energy required to switch a transistor. Furthermore, the presence or absence of that voltage across a Josephson junction could be used...
...said the money would be used for faculty salaries, educational research, an increase in financial aid to undergraduates and for a new building fund. The college plans to construct a $14 million science complex as part of the development project...
...survive bitter Soviet winters, the car had to start unfailingly at -13° F. "To do all this in the time allowed, we had to take risks," recalls Vincenzo Buffa, Fiat vice-director-general. "We started building before we knew what machines would be needed" to construct the modified...
...Tozzer library will be a three-story brick building. A larger building was originally planned to contain space for the ethnological research collection along with the library. However, fund-raising drives failed to raise enough money to construct the larger building, Williams said...