Word: plant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About 1,000 miles from Quan's farm, in Guanxian, a group of excited Chinese tourists is visiting the Dujiangyan irrigation system -- another marvel of China's ancient genius -- built 2,200 years ago. On a misty morning the tourists can barely make out an aging, abandoned hydroelectric plant about a mile upstream. Like much of what was built by the Soviets during the heyday of Sino-Soviet cooperation in the 1950s, this power station too is crumbling. In fact, the plant had been little used; the Soviet advisers had sited it improperly...
...everyone and everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped immediately. Within 36 hours, 4,000 Chinese, including Wu, were digging...
...desperate search for other AIDS treatments has not flagged. Last week a group of San Francisco AIDS activists announced the results of their highly controversial underground test of Compound Q, a chemical derived from a cucumber-like Chinese plant. Although many of the 34 patients tested with the drug seemed to show marked improvement, three have died. The deaths have not been directly attributed to Compound Q, but the uncertain results proved once again how important AZT has become to AIDS patients as a life-giving drug and a symbol of hope...
Harvard must contain Stanford to no more than that today, lest the Tree plant its roots in Cambridge...
Ingersoll splurged $20 million on such items as a printing plant, electronic facsimile equipment and 5,000 scarlet vending machines, but he is spending relatively little on a reporting staff because the paper's emphasis is on packaging news more than on unearthing it. Advertisers were promised a circulation of 75,000; some 41,000 subscribers are said to have signed already...