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...sits, spread 30 miles (50 km) wide during the wettest California winter on record, in 1862, before dams and levees tamed the river. Dams produce more clean energy than nuclear reactors. Irrigation agriculture, largely dependent on reservoirs, grows 40% of the world's food on a much smaller fraction of its farmland...
Like the men, the Harvard women brought only a fraction of its team, constrained by training and injuries...
...physical well-being of the community requires that issues of general health remain insulated from personal preferences. The required UHS fee, appropriated by a team of medical and administrative experts, supports a wide-range of services and programs. The average student may directly benefit from a only a fraction of these services, but that does not mean that students should be able to pick and choose which programs to fund...
...second important protection would reform the woefully inadequate and underfunded system of public defense for capital crimes. Because indigent defendants in many states are represented by court-appointed lawyers paid only a fraction of the normal rate for similar legal work, the system tends not to select those lawyers with the necessary experience and qualifications to try a complex criminal case, but those who are willing to work cheap. A state that is willing to pay any price to recruit talented and knowledgeable prosecutors but refuses to commit resources towards the defense does not have a justice system worthy...
...picking up momentum from the radio waves. This scheme works beautifully in theory, but there are some practical difficulties to be overcome. The transmitter has to be gigantic and must focus the energy of the beam on the fishnet as it accelerates. The fishnet must absorb only a tiny fraction of the radio waves to avoid being vaporized. The probe must carry instruments to collect information and transmit signals back to earth, and those instruments must weigh less than an ounce. There are enough problems here to keep engineers busy for several centuries, but one day a ship like this...