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Nevertheless, low-rent water babies need not despair. A drop to popular prices is likely if California hot tubs find a mass market. That's what happened with calculators and waterbeds, both expensive innovations which now sell for a fraction of their original price. Such exotic headaches as cleaning redwood...
In the Arnold Arboretum's first plant-hunting expedition to the Far East in 60 years, staff members of the Arboretum brought back hundreds of exotic plant seeds, some of which have already begun to germinate, Dr. Richard E. Weaver, an expedition member at the Arboretum, said yesterday.
Nearly 300 scientists this week are beginning one of the most extraordinary surveys in the annals of U.S. geology. Under a $1.4 million program conducted jointly by the National Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Geological Survey and local authorities, 36 teams of specialists are fanning across Southern California with levels, gravity...
Jogger's kidney usually cures itself within 48 hours, but whether it can lead to more permanent kidney damage remains to be determined. David Jeffrey Fletcher, a second-year medical student at Chicago's Rush Medical College, is setting up a five-year study of long-distance runners...
His price per picture for films in which he only acts has just doubled?to $2 million?but he is already rich from percentage deals on older films. The once famous womanizer has been settled down with Sally Field for over a year, and having finally braved the Bel-Air...