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...titles as Granddad's Wonder Book of Chemistry, Root Rot and The Complete Book of Midwifery. Neo-Life Co. of America, a major producer based in Hayward, claims a similar increase in sales, are now topping $1 million a Survival Inc., a mail-order survival-food and -equipment outlet in Carson, boasts 5,000 customers- a 400% from a year...
...which non-Russians outnumber Russians has prompted some reactionary impulses among the old men of the Kremlin, who believe deeply in the fundamental Russianness of the country. The innocuous-sounding but powerful All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments has served increasingly as an outlet for an officially sanctioned resurgence of Slavophilism. Many top officers of the armed forces worry about non-Russians some day dominating the military. This fear has contributed to the growth of a mystery-shrouded fraternal society called Rodina (the Motherland), which has come perilously close to crossing the boundary from Soviet...
Garbage is nobody's favorite topic of conversation, but University Health Services (UHS) officials devoted a lot of time to the subject this fall when the University's sole outlet for disposal of low-level radioactive waste suddenly shut down. Getting rid of the less-than-deadly waste, produced by area laboratories and hospitals at the rate of about 3500 30-gallon barrels each year, proved more than a slight headache for University officials when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray closed the Hanford, Wash., dumping site in early October...
Both worlds, she says, provided room for creative outlet and both were fiercely competitive. "I was surprised how much I liked Solomon Brothers," she says, adding, "I began to realize that I could do more than one thing well." Solomon Brothers has many more minority employees than a place like Morgan Guaranty she says, adding that besides unconventional hiring policies, Solomon encourages unconventionally risky investments...
...fine, gritty ash drifted into everything: aircraft engines, sewage and water treatment plants, tractor gears, washing machines. One official at Washington State University warned homemakers to use only detergents when washing clothes because soap might mix with ash in the water, forming a sludge that would hopelessly clog the outlet hoses of automatic washing machines...