Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There still is some question as to whether Harvard's skill or Columbia's ineptitude was responsible for the outcome. But as J.S. Mill so aptly put it: "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." It was a little of both...
...records mean record companies; Mistah Kurtz, he alive over at Warner Brothers. Record companies knew that the New Wave could be reduced to formulas and cranked out of the mill, that like everything else this exciting new music was susceptible to the process that had become a metaphor for the decade--cloning. They knew that they could sell overproduced pseudo-New Wave to most of its fans, artsy fartsy students with plenty of money and charge cards from Mom and Dad, ugly girls without taste or talent, nouveau hipsters who found Talking Heads "well, you kneu, so bizarre...
Students are taught to do everything as cheaply as possible and to buy only what is necessary. The new builders learn to economize by making their own windows (one-third cheaper than the contractor's price) and by buying lumber direct from the mill (50% less than at a lumber yard). Heating, water and electricity bills can be trimmed by having large windows that face south to the winter sun, and by installing wood-burning stoves, hand pumps and compost toilets. Though conventional housing costs up to $40 per sq. ft., homes constructed along Shelter lines can be built...
...remote bend of the Jari River, a fast-flowing tributary, the vista changes dramatically. There, as tall as a 16-story building, stands a monument to modern engineering: a brand-new, spanking-white pulp plant, which reaches out with ducts, cables and conveyor belts to a wood-chipping mill, a chemical factory and a power generating facility...
There is method in Ludwig's mellowness. The Jari project is approaching the crucial second stage of development. The present pulp mill is planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs to install another plant, which might process pulp into newsprint. Luckily, large deposits of kaolin, a white mineral used in papermaking, have been found on the Jari property...