Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strong Difference. Since the boating boom of the early 1960s, though, boatmen and lawmen have agreed that old-fashioned heads are no longer adequate. But they differ strongly in their assessment of two newer ways to control boat sewage: 1) "primary treatment" on board in a device known as a...
Neat as it was, this scheme still left unanswered one more question: How could DNA or RNA choose from among 20 amino acids to produce complex proteins by using an informational system that had only four code letters?the four bases?at its disposal? An answer to this intriguing problem...
Jump Cut. Even before they can make basic editorial judgments about the relative news value of stories, TV producers must overcome mammoth technical problems. Film and tape must be acquired from all over the world via Air Express or cable or satellite; when they come, there is too much footage...
Garbage-and its disposal-offers a continuing challenge to scientific ingenuity. Produced in ever-increasing amounts around the world, it is being incinerated, converted into fertilizer, used as landfill, recycled into new products or dumped carelessly into rivers and seas. Still it piles up. To keep ahead of the accumulating...
Dense Packages. Bostrom and Sherif admit that their scheme raises a number of serious technological questions. It would have to be determined, for example, whether a river deposits mud quickly enough to accommodate the projected garbage load. The plan would also be expensive, because the garbage would have to be...