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...that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...
...carried out 800 lbs. of gold and 3,000 lbs. of silver. They took thousands of 14-karat bracelets and ring mountings and swept up packages of jewelry that were wrapped and ready to be sent to customers. Upstairs, they found silver and gold scrap stored in 50 5-gal. cans. Police believe the thieves were in the building for at least three or four hours and eventually escaped, obviously, by truck. Richard Andrews, the insurance investigator on the case, estimates that the gold and silver could be worth as much as $7 million on the retail market...
...repair work, which Met-Ed officials estimate will cost nearly $400 million, is already several months behind schedule. The recovery crews have removed and decontaminated about a quarter of the 425,000 gal. of radioactive water that spilled into one of Unit 2's auxiliary buildings. Construction workers are building a dump-actually a collection of huge vats set in concrete and covered with concrete slabs-to store these wastes on the island until a permanent disposal site can be found...
Last week company workers took the first step toward decontaminating Unit 2's containment building, where some 600,000 gal. of radioactive water cover the floor to a depth of 7 ft. Right after the accident, the radiation level there was a searing 30,000 rems per hour. It has since dropped to a merely dangerous 200 rems just above the surface of the water. Covered from head to toe in radiation-resistant protective clothing, three engineers entered an air lock, though not the containment building itself, and during the course of a 20-min. stay took radiation readings...
...religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal, for rediscovery of the womb, a flow of delta brain waves-or just a snooze. The experience might be called the caviar...