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...grass, or showering his parched hide in a cool river, the elephant moves with unhurried majesty. But for how long? In Elephants (Abrams; 255 pages; $50) Photographer Reinhard Künkel notes that during the 1970s a tenfold increase in the price of ivory, from $6 to $60 a kilogram, meant the death sentence for thousands of Africa's pachyderms. Hunters steal into national parks at night and, using automatic weapons, snares and poisoned arrows, kill dozens of animals at a time. The elephants' tusks are cut off and the huge corpses left to rot. During 1976 alone...
...some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...state's pricing system, designed to hold down food costs to consumers, was a blueprint for bankruptcy. The state was paying farmers 10 zlotys for a liter of milk that it sold in stores for 4 zlotys. Live hogs were bought from farmers at 130 zlotys per kilogram and sold as butchered pork at 70 zlotys per kilogram. Farmers bought bread and fed it to their livestock because it was cheaper than the wheat it was made from. Price subsidies began absorbing a staggering one-third of the national budget...
Power companies are willing to pay a great deal for this service: the cost of the reprocessing of a single kilogram (2.25 lbs.) of uranium currently ranges between $350 and $450. Lately the French have signed cost-plus contracts with ten Japanese utilities to handle 1,600 tons of nuclear fuel over a ten-year period beginning in 1983; at current prices, that deal alone is worth at least $600 million...
...billion shuttle pro gram, required precise planning. For months, engineers from NASA and Rockwell International had been surveying the route to Edwards, relocating telephone poles and overseeing the resurfacing of 16 kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...