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...where several crops are harvested a year. What helped make this former desert bloom is a bountiful supply of federally subsidized irrigation water. Last week, in a victory for the valley's large landholders, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Government must continue to provide them with low-cost water...
...market is expected to soar to $100 billion annually by the end of the century. Moreover, the industry's key product, the confetti-size sliver of silicon known as the microchip, is revolutionizing everything from giant computers to tiny home appliances, making possible a whole new generation of low-cost machines that can "think" and "talk." Says Electronics Analyst Benjamin Rosen: "Within 20 years, microchips will be as economically important as autos, steel, energy and chemicals-a basic global industry without which no nation can claim to be a first-rate power...
...Commonwealth to the same spending standard. As Sullivan points out, if Cambridge bordered a wealthy suburb, and each had $100 million worth of property, each would be able to spend the same amount of money. Cambridge, however, has to provide subsidized housing, bus kids to integrate its schools, run low-cost hospitals, and fight high crime rates, while the suburb faces no crises much larger than where to build the Olympic-size swimming pool...
Instead, Harvard should continue trying to establish good relations with the city. Last year's donation of a $500,000 parcel of land to a neighborhood group for low-cost housing was an important gesture. Working with, not against, Cambridge officials on the Sacramento St. field would be another...
...bank of photo-electric power cells might be inappropriate for capital-poor developing countries, solar water heaters and buildings designed to take advantage of the sun could make a substantial contribution towards meeting these countries' energy needs. A multilateral agency could finance the development of these technologies and provide low-cost, long term loans to disseminate them. Perhaps the Organization of Oil-Exporting Countries, which has been searching for a way to aid the developing countries could join in such an effort...