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...burial. With any luck, you may even be choosing an alternative to death itself. The Cryonics Society of New York is peddling a unique form of insurance against terminal disease: in the event of death caused by fatal illness, your body can be frozen, suspended in a capsule of liquid nitrogen and buried in the hope (no matter how far-fetched) that some day you can be thawed back to life by some future "miracle of science." As an added bonus you will receive "postsuspension counseling (for survivors presumably) on future developments...
WASTES. After the nuclear fuel is used, the remaining liquid wastes are not only radioactive but long-lived. Indeed, radioisotopes of plutonium 239 will remain lethal for at least 250,000 years. The AEC is sure that it can handle the problem by solidifying the wastes (so that they cannot enter the environment) and then keeping them under surveillance until a safe storage technique is developed. But, says Physicist Henry Kendall, "the legacy to future generations very much disturbs...
...Stocks. The largest of these liquid asset funds, the Reserve Fund Inc., began accepting purchases from the public in October 1972. In the short time since then, it has attracted $138 million from 10,000 accounts (minimum: $1,000 each)-even though it has been promoted by word of mouth among investment counselors, brokers, corporations and bank trust departments. Bruce Bent, vice president and treasurer, says that many people, "punchy from the stock market, are taking their money out and putting it in the fund." Indeed, about a third of the investments have come from brokers who have...
...Reserve Fund's phenomenal growth rate has prompted organization of several similar funds in recent months. Among them are Dreyfus Liquid Assets, Inc.; Anchor Reserve Fund, Inc., which takes investments as small as $100 initially and $25 thereafter; and Money Market Management, Inc., of Pittsburgh. How well they will do at a time when many interest rates have dropped a bit from their 1973 peaks is moot. Donald Pitti, president of Wiesenberger Services Inc., which among other things publishes analyses of mutual-fund investment records, believes that the new funds are "a product of high interest rates...
CONVERTING IT. Solid coal cannot power jetliners or cars, and the U.S. depends on liquid and gaseous fuels for two-thirds of its energy. Thus the key to coal's future is whether it can be converted into either synthetic oil or natural gas. It can be, but economical processes are yet to come...