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...machines and human skills. While more than 200 desalting plants are already operating around the world, including nine in the U.S., they have yet to surmount one vexing problem: cost. The desalting plants have been unable to produce fresh water for much less than $1 per 1,000 gal., which may be economical in a parched country such as Kuwait, but can scarcely compete against the average 350 per 1,000 gal. that U.S. communities pay for water...
...theory, the plant will be able to sell its water for 35? per 1,000 gal. because it will produce two valuable byproducts, electricity and radioactive isotopes. It will turn out 1,000,000 gal. per day-enough for the average needs of 10,000 rural-area people-as well as 2,500 kw. of electricity per hour and up to 500,000 curies of cobalt-60 isotopes per year, which together could be sold for $500,000 annually. Though the 35? price for the desalted water will be above the 30? that Riverhead now pays for regular water...
...Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny Driftwood, a nice but undesirable young man," and persuades him to ditch his gal Sloppy-Belle and get into the Job Corps. Next scene: having been thoroughly rehabilitated, Danny Driftwood wins Bouncy-Belle, a nubile if ungrammatical Sekkatery. The Job Corps is stashing 500,000 copies of the book in neighborhoods where comics pass for literature in the hope that potential no-goodniks will...
Every time she dance, skinny gal gonna lose her home...
...chamber for the study of subnuclear particles lay twisted and scorched in the $1,000,000 wreckage. When all the evidence has been studied, the deceptively simple element may yet be exonerated. But significantly, when the accident occurred, the scientists were cautiously handling hydrogen, piping it into the 100-gal. bubble chamber...