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...Aswan Dam (see map) would create the world's largest man-made lake, three times as long as Hoover Dam's Lake Mead and with a capacity of 105 million acre-feet of water. It would multiply Egypt's electric-power supply eightfold and irrigate 2,000,000 new acres, expanding Egypt's farmland by 30% and the national income by 25%. At $1.3 billion for the dam and irrigation works, the cost, reckoned at $650 per acre of new irrigated land, is a bargain by comparison with some projects in the U.S. West...
...months since President Eisenhower signed the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, it has brought only 20,002 men, women and children to the U.S. To complete the authorized quota before the act expires 22 months hence, the monthly average must be stepped up at least eightfold. What has paralyzed the refugee program...
...Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev urged that collectives in European Russia should plant U.S. hybrid corn, and demanded an eightfold increase in Soviet corn production by 1960. That will take some doing...
...first council took place soon after the Buddha's death in the 5th century B.C., when about 500 of the leading monks of the New Order met in a cave to decide on the first collection of their master's teachings: the universality of suffering and the Eightfold Path by which one might escape from it-right belief, right contemplation, right speech, right work, right livelihood, right exercise, right mindfulness, right concentration...
...Moslems, believing there is no god but Allah: 77,093,000; Sikhs, believing in a hodgepodge of Hindu and Moslem creeds: 4,335, 771; Christians: 6,296,763; Jains, believing all animals are sacrosanct: 1,251,000; Buddhists, believing in the escape from suffering through the "Eightfold path": 12,786,806; Parsis, believing in Ormazd, lord of light and goodness: 109,000: tribal (mainly primitive) religions...