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Catalyst for More. Seven companies, mostly organized by steel firms, are now building $1 billion worth of taconite-processing plants that will employ 9,000 men and ship 33 million tons of pellet ore annually. By 1990 the capacities of these plants will double. Two new Minnesota towns, Silver Bay and Hoyt Lakes, have recently been created. The taconite boom is also reviving older towns: in Chisholm (pop. 7,100), unemployment has fallen from 33% three years ago to only 6% today. Mining company payrolls and purchases will soon reach $194 million a year, and Minnesota expects the taconite industry...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
Gavin Gilmore currently leads the squad's offense with a .394 batting average. Both Tom Bilodeau and Terry Bartolet are hitting the pellet at a .367 clip while Dick Diehl and Tom Stephenson are tied at .332. Stephenson leads the team in RBIs with 7 and in home runs with...
...killed two Ukrainian anti-Red emigrés in Munich. The reason why the deaths had not attracted special attention-one was put down as a heart attack, the other as suicide-proved bizarre. His weapon, said Stashinsky, had been a single-barreled aluminum air gun that fired a pellet of liquid potassium cyanide through a fine mesh screen, releasing a poison spray. The poison caused death within 90 seconds after it was inhaled, leaving no mark on the victims...
...micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left are the tobacco mosaic virus, which figured importantly in early virological discoveries made in the 19th century; the smaller, pellet-shaped viruses at the upper right are polio; the four at the lower right are influenza...