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Last week, Key West became the first U.S. city to get its entire freshwater supply from the sea when the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission dedicated the world's largest single-unit desalting plant, a gleaming $3.3 million facility that can produce up to 2,620,000 gallons a day. The plant uses the so-called "flash" process, by which heated sea water is forced through a series of low-pressure chambers until it vaporizes into steam, which, in turn, condenses into pure water-much as steam condenses on the surface of a tea kettle. Fifteen years ago, desalination cost...
...legislative turmoil in India's seventh largest state (pop. 36,000,000) was only one numbing throb in what has become a royal headache for Indira Gandhi's Congress Party. Twenty years after India's independence and the merging of the country's 554 autonomous kingdoms with its British-run provinces, the maharajahs, princelings and other assorted royalty left over from the old days are turning to politics and making things increasingly warm for the Congress Party. The party, in turn, is angrily threatening to cut off the pensions and special privileges of the princes...
...wrong. Today, after 25 years, 49-year-old Nesuhi and 43-year-old Ah met are stronger than ever for caz and yaniturku - and it is paying off. As president and vice president of Manhattan-based Atlantic Records, they head one of the largest and fastest-growing record firms in the country, and are riding atop the most pervasive pop-music tide in years: the "soul sound...
...foreign exchange, they are rapidly making up for lost time. At the moment, hotels in Moscow are booked sol id. But new hotels are going up everywhere, including Moscow's vast Russia Hotel, now partly open, to be completed this fall. It will be the world's largest, with 3,182 air-conditioned rooms. Imitating the U.S.'s interstate highway system, Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated by 40 new motels. Formerly closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall...
...eight companies that account for more than 80% of the nation's output. In a small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile, the possibility of a crippling strike by six railroad shopcraft unions flickered anew, though on Capitol Hill, there were hopeful plans to draft legislation to handle the dispute...