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...easy to see why. While unemployment has been coming down gradually in the U.S., Europe's jobless rolls have been rising since early 1975, and the idle are now about 5.1% of the work force. Reason: economic growth has taken a nosedive. In Europe's four largest economies, those of West Germany, France, Britain and Italy, growth averaged only 2% last year, exactly half the figure for 1976. The slowdown reduced inflation, but not very much: prices rose an average of 10% for non-Communist Europe as a whole...
...bottling plants. Together with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...
...embargo shook the Western economies, there were only two small "resource recovery" plants in the U.S. processing garbage into energy. Today 16 full-fledged plants are in operation using varied technologies, another twelve are under construction, and many more are in different stages of planning. The latest and largest municipality to join the switch to garbage power is New York City, which in December announced that it was negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility would take in 2,400 tons of garbage...
Still, they tried. Writes Crick, who with James Watson won his Nobel Prize for elucidating the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life: "We understand how an organism can build molecules, although the largest of them is far too minute for us to see, even with a high-powered microscope; yet we do not understand how it builds a flower or a hand or an eye, all of which are plainly visible to us." Even less is known, Crick notes, about how an animal's nervous system is formed, how the growth of the nerves is directed...
...matched. It has brought reading and Bible translations to 90 previously illiterate tribes, and is currently at work with 650 more. Counting pilots and support personnel, literacy teachers and workers in community development, agriculture and medicine, the agency has a staff of 3,700, making it by far the largest U.S. mission. Until recently, at least, it was still growing...