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...United States presently plans to funnel $20 billion and untold man-hours of its best scientists into an effort to put an American on the moon as soon as possible. Sending a man to the earth's nearest neighbor, however, is little more than a huge publicity stunt. The same amount of information could be gained simply by landing an instrument package on the moon--a far easier and less expensive project. Also, such a venture would not need to endanger the life of an American astronaut in a program forced to sacrifice safety for the sake of speed...
...would keep $200,000 for engineering studies and funnel the remaining $150,000 to the School of Public Health, where it would be used for research into the ultimate oceanographic effects of the incinerator and the development of an adequate land-transport system...
Laborites, even Wilson's potential foes, found some goodies to applaud in his program. He mollified the far left by urging greater trade with Russia and an East-West detente that would allow Britain to funnel defense spending into research. Old-fashioned chauvinists applauded his rosy vision of a Britain made great again, and Little Englanders cheered his declaration of independence from...
Sweden for Swedes. The Wallenberg who started it all was André, who visited the U.S. and Scotland as a young naval lieutenant, became fascinated by banking and founded Stockholm's first commercial bank in 1856. His Enskilda Bank became the chief funnel through which foreign capital entered Sweden, and André and the succeeding Wallenbergs directed the flow of foreign funds to finance Swedish industrialization...
Suddenly, the light rain became a cloudburst-the worst in arid Petra's recorded history. Within half an hour, torrential floods were streaming down from the hills and cliffs and pouring into the Siq as into a funnel. One Italian pilgrim said, "We heard shrieks and cries within the ravine, as the muddy cascade of water rushed by us. We saw the little car with the four women and the driver swept along by the torrent and then submerged. In an instant, they all disappeared in the floodwaters raging along at perhaps 60 miles an hour...