Word: iceberg
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Calving off their mother glaciers, sliding into the water with a sound like thunder and drifting into shipping lanes, icebergs have long been regarded mainly as hazards to navigation. But the bergs may have a use, after all. For the past few years planners in the parched lands of the Middle East and South America -not to mention more than a few drought-bedeviled Californians-have been toying with ideas for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to arid areas where they could be melted for their pure, fresh water (TIME, March 7). Last week scientists from 18 nations gathered...
Sponsored by Prince Mohammed al Faisal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would...
...very well might be worth it. Even if the mile-long iceberg lost as much as 20% of its mass en route, it could be melted down and its water made available at a cost of 500 to 600 a cubic meter (about 35 cu. ft.), well under the 80? it now costs to desalinate a cubic meter of water...
...Manhattan's upper East Side, tables were moved outdoors for a block party. The guests included Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol and Designer Calvin Klein. At One Fifth, a Greenwich Village restaurant decorated with fittings from the cruise ship R.M.S. Caronia, a patron quipped: "We've hit an iceberg." Pianist Nat Jones scrounged a candle to light his keyboard and played It Ain't Necessarily So. Unfortunately...
...afraid they might get killed in their district for supporting it." With the imminent redistricting that will pare the 240-member lower chamber down to 160 representatives, House legislators have never been so conscious of treading lightly on the sore spots of some constituents. The House is clearly the iceberg which might sink the measure...