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Dams. A bursting dam can be a mass killer. The U.S., by great good luck, has not suffered such a tragedy since Nov. 6, 1977, when an earthen dam in Georgia gave way after a 5-in. rainfall and unleashed a 30-ft.-high wall of water on Toccoa Falls...
Some aspects of Newsweek's agenda show little sensitivity to how the proposals will affect workers personally. The employee whose salary decreases as a result of a minimum wage reduction, for instance, would suffer an incalculable loss of self-esteem, knowing his employer measures his worth in terms of the...
Nor is this all. Uncle Sam is selling off prime property in the heart of New York City and on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a piece near the Las Vegas Strip and a chunk of Waikiki Beach. It is unloading Air Force bases, military ammunition plants, and dozens of dams...
Traditionally, the industrial strength of a nation has been measured by its ability to make things big: the immense blast furnaces of its steel mills, the vast concrete expanses of its dams and the monumental skyscrapers towering over its cities. In the future, industrial might will flow increasingly from the...
Grandiose may be an understatement. The enterprise involves two separate sets of river diversions. On the European side of the Urals, the volume of the Volga would be increased by funneling into it the flow of three major northern rivers, the Onega, the Northern Dvina and the Pechora. Officially sanctioned...