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...that would be caused by a single rotating cylinder. Even material from the moon, asteroids and other planets would eventually be used. Finally, so many people might be resettled in space that the earth's population could be reduced to what O'Neill regards as a comfortable optimum: the 1910 level of 1.2 billion people. Then, he adds, the earth would become "a worldwide park, a beautiful place to visit for a vacation...
...good times, feed-lot operators buy 500-lb. to 700-lb. calves from ranchers, gorge them on a special, high-protein diet until the cattle reach the optimum slaughter weight of 1,100 lbs., then resell them to packers for about the same price per pound that they paid. They corral a profit if the expense of putting the added weight on the animals is less than the price that the added poundage brings...
...gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional weight is mostly unwanted fat. About all the operators can do is go on selling the steers when they reach optimum slaughter weight and hope for a price rebound later. That could happen in about six months, to the housewife's chagrin: there are an estimated 20% fewer steers coming into feed lots than a year ago. The result is that demand could exceed supply by late fall...
...said that dust pollution and light pollution will make observation of the comet in the city of Boston "futile." Celestial enthusiasts should go to the west of the city to see Kohoutek under optimum conditions, Whipple said...
There remains no doubt that a temporary decrease is necessary until serious study is made to determine the optimum size of college. Tomorrow, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate life should support and send to Dean Rosovsky the proposal to admit 125 fewer men to the next freshman class. If Rosovsky does not approve this necessary stop-gap, Harvard and Radcliffe could be destined for overcrowding of extraordinary proportions next fall...