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...proved the feasibility of producing coal from oil. In fact, early Bureau of Mines tests in commercial scale plants at Rifle, Colorado, showed that oil could be made from coal at no cost per barrel when produced in series with a steam-generated electric power plant, using its excess steam to produce gasoline, a smokeless solid fuel, and liquid fuels worth more than the cost of the raw coal itself...
...Schuller's formula for church success consists of five points: "Accessibility, service, visibility, possibility thinking and excess parking." Some churchmen find that too shallow. "This church doesn't take religion seriously enough," complains Bob Merkle, the director of a counseling service who works with the church. "To fit in around here you have to be compulsively cheerful." The erudite Theology Today has been debating whether Schuller's message is a cultural copout...
Love's Labor's Lost is an early comedy in which Shakespeare frolics with words. Sometimes they seem deliberately designed to be mockingly pedantic, zestful in excess. Then suddenly the master of language will yoke his dramatic poetry like a chariot...
...further parking restrictions are passed by Congress they would impose difficulties on University employees, Gilfix said. However, he said that will the prevent restrictions there is no excess demand for parking spaces and there are no employee parking waiting lists...
Thus far, at least, the 1974-75 flu has claimed few lives. The U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that a check of 121 cities reveals that influenza has caused only 578 excess deaths* so far this season, mostly from complications. This year's total is far below the 2,200 fatalities attributed to the 1972-73 outbreak. But the CDC still urges caution...