Word: frankfurt
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...recycle little more than 125,000 tons a year. Meanwhile, because of the backlog and the failure of many participating companies to pay their full dues, DSD has plunged $500 million into debt. Much of the money is owed to local governments for collection and storage of refuse; Frankfurt and Stuttgart are threatening to sue DSD or quit the program...
...airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would be lucky to hit Yugoslavia...
...that they could not be shut" -- but only a tiny fraction of them has survived. Quite a lot of that fraction went on view last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in "Daumier Drawings," jointly organized by the Met and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt...
...choice. In 1967, for example, the first hippies were detected in San Francisco, and within a year the historic fountains of Europe were crowded with pot-smoking young people clad only in feathers. In 1984 America produced the first yuppies, who have since moved on to infest London and Frankfurt. Why, the very concept of life-style is an American invention, implying that there is more than one choice...
...Iceman's day, much of the world had made the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic society -- from the Old to the Late Stone Age -- a change that University of Frankfurt prehistorian Jens Luning calls "the revolutionary event in human history." It marked the transition from subsistence hunting and gathering to agriculture and the domestication of animals; the stockpiling of food; extensive use of copper; the manufacture of increasingly sophisticated tools and pottery. A dependable food supply in turn led to a population explosion: by about 4000 B.C. there were an estimated 86.5 million people on earth, about eight times...