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...free, but the freedom was that of the puritan aristocrat, not the anticlerical rebel. He was the exquisite ruler of little boxes, an incomparably more gifted Ludwig II who constructed his Neuschwanstein-swans, grottoes, secret chambers, opera house and permanent twilight-in the space of half a cubic foot...
...prince's special project is the use of 2.5 million cubic meters of water that is available each year from the Jordan River. Revelle said that Hassan advocated improvements in irrigation for the benefit of Israel...
City Manager James L. Sullivan last night urged the adoption of an amendment to the city ordinance that would boost the cost of water in the city from 26 to 44 cents per hundred cubic feet...
...components had to be miniaturized to an incredible degree, yet remain capable of working under a wide range of temperatures. Only when such problems had been solved could the exobiologists and their engineer colleagues finally assemble the life-detection laboratory (see diagram), in a space of only one cubic foot...
...convert it into fertilizer for India. Fertilizer capacity in that country was cut back by 40 per cent overnight. This, with an unexpected drought, and the increase of grain prices in the West, caused massive starvation. "Meanwhile," observes Senator Hatfield, "various oil producing nations are flaring 4.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas each year, ten times more than the U.S. uses annually for fertilizer production, and enough to double current world fertilizer production...