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...along the coast of Peru. Indeed, he noted, it is only when man collects the guano for fertilizer that the nitrogen-and phosphate-rich material is eventually returned to the "biological cycle in the form of plant nutrient." Guano is not the only example of nature's garbage. Peat, coal and even oil are all organic materials that have undergone only partial decomposition. Paradoxically, Dubos added, when man burns these fuels (and pollutes the atmosphere) he also helps complete nature's unfinished cycle, "because he thereby makes the carbon and minerals of these fuels once more available...
...that an outside expert on employee benefit plans should be retained to assist them in developing recommendations to the Board of Directors for changes in the plans which would enable the Coop to improve benefits, especially pension benefits, reduce administration costs and update the plans. Mr. Archibald Price of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company was retained for this purpose. After a thorough review of the old plans and extensive discussions between Mr. Price and the management, detailed recommendations were prepared for the Board of Directors. These recommendations, in essence, were to provide all insurance under a new group life insurance plan...
...third highrise will loom on Boylston St., midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...third highrise will loom on Boylston Street, midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...rest follow. And even Nansen turns his eyes from the central horror. When the breeze wafts the black smoke of the death camp ovens towards the small town where the painter and the policeman live, the two men have lies to blow the smoke away: "the Dutch are burning peat, they said, and their minds were at rest...