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...largely publicly funded center in Salt Lake City. DeVries had to buttonhole benefactors personally to help cover Clark's hospital expenses of more than $250,000. Humana has pledged to underwrite the surgical costs of up to 100 artificial-heart implants. DeVries' own income will depend on his private practice. As is standard in experimental surgery, his services for the implant operations will be donated...
...profits of U.S. oil companies. Last week Frank Kneuttel, of the Gintel energy-research group, warned clients away from energy stocks. Said he: "The price is like a snowball coming downhill without a mogul to stop it." Falling prices will also hurt Mexico, Venezuela and other countries that depend on oil income to pay off their debt...
...population growth are already evident. In addition to unrestrained urban growth, McNamara notes the increasing inadequacy of Third World agriculture, owing in part to rural overpopulation and economic distortions caused by efforts to palliate the rising tide of urban consumers. In such countries as Tanzania and India, where people depend on firewood for fuel, deforestation is damaging flood control, speeding erosion and adding to the hardship of merely staying alive. Citing the example of China, McNamara warns that rapid population growth may also lead to greater and more coercive state intrusions into private life, ranging from forced sterilization to restrictions...
...first and second floors are also expected to undergo similar renovations in the future but a date for the work has not been set, said Donald J. Ciappenelli, director of the Chemistry Laboratories. Further work will depend on the needs of future faculty members, he added...
...need in order to carry on photosynthesis. Another problem is the bay's excess of nitrogen and phosphorus. These nutrients "fertilize" the bay and promote the proliferation of algae. When algae decompose, they rob the water of its life-giving oxygen, killing the grasses and the creatures that depend on them. There are areas of the bay-submarine deserts-where nothing at all can live...