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This is one for the man-bites-dog department. Last week the Governors of two states trooped to Capitol Hill, not to ask for federal money but to urge Congress to reject a mammoth development that would bring millions of dollars into their regions...
Enclosed in a remote marshy area by huge dams made of coarse tailings covered with vegetation, the mammoth basin measures nearly 6 sq. mi. and will cost $370 million when fully completed. The other costs of the long environmental dispute have also been large, ranging from such intangibles as fears in Silver Bay of a permanent plant shutdown (which local physicians blame for a flurry of marriage breakups and a rise in prescriptions for tranquilizers) to the $7 million that Duluth had to pay for a filtration plant when the city's drinking water was found to contain...
...heck are you going to inspect this mammoth place," he says, walking past two animal technicians who are unloading a new shipment of rats into small opaque plastic boxes. "The MSPCA inspects but they don't really do anything. They just walk through the building to see if the animals are all right. He's the only one who's close to them. He takes care of them everyday. You could torture thousands of mice and no one would know but the technician," he adds...
From Hammurabi to Nixon, wage and price limits have been almost universally disastrous. Hoarding and scarcities quickly develop as businessmen either stop producing goods or store them rather than sell-at a loss. Mammoth and costly bureaucracies soon tell the corner pharmacist how much to charge for aspirin or a gas station owner whether he can give his mechanic an extra $5 a week. In the U.S., the World War II controls program required 60,000 full-time officials, plus another 300,000 volunteer price checkers...
Driving in and around the Simplex site, once home of a mammoth cable factory, and now with a field with "all sorts of garbage and not much else," Caragianes explains his dream...