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Some countries are trying novel approaches to meet their water needs. Saudi Arabia has contracted with a French firm to study the feasibility of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to a Red Sea port, where it could be melted for its fresh water. Elsewhere, more conventional methods are being used to increase the supply of usable water. Among them...
...FRUSTRATED, mentally," bemoans one of the characters in Passing Strangers, an original musical production by undergraduate Andrew Berger. That is certainly true for the four individuals in this play, who languish under their feelings of alienation. But alienation is only the tip of the emotional iceberg. Although Berger occasionally dips below the surface to reveal his characters' motivations, in the end he leaves only the superficial impression of the iceberg's peak...
...Living Newspaper has followed the tradition of the 1930's Living Newspaper by producing whole plays on specific subjects--they have written and produced a play about the nuclear power industry and are presently working on a drama about polyvinyl chloride poisoning to be called "The Tip of the Iceberg"--their weekly productions at the Red Book Store near Central Square are mostly a series of short skits, each illustrating some item in the preceding week's news. The format tends to change from week to week, and in April the one-hour show will expand to three hours...
Perhaps the most intriguing scheme came from an imaginative scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After an earlier drought in the 1950s, John Isaacs proposed towing giant, flat-topped icebergs from Antarctica (those from the Arctic would not be big enough) to the California coast; as they melted, fresh water could be siphoned out of the lakes that would form on top of them. The idea has impressed at least one country: petroleum-rich, water-poor Saudi Arabia. A French engineering firm hired by the Saudis is studying whether or not the plan is practical. Towed by six tugs...
...outraged public demanded a special Senate committee to discover why so many fine people from the Social Register had to take an unscheduled dip in the Atlantic that April night. The Smith Committee held exhaustive hearings, asking tough questions that ranged from the topic of what the guilty iceberg was made of ("Ice," replied the ship's Fifth Officer) to the chances of salvage. Another crew member answered that question with the choking reply, "No, no, she went down like a rock and now she's gone--they'll never raise her." The advice is well taken. Cussler's book...