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...small lifeboat for some of those passengers, Todd and McLarney have created a prototype agricultural "ark," a self-sufficient food-producing complex involving greenhouses, fish ponds, solar heaters and a windmill. The odd layout is clustered around three greenhouse-covered ponds built on an incline. The lowest pond contains a variety of edible fish, mostly the tasty tropical tilapia (somewhat like the sunfish). Pumped by the windmill, the water from this pond is passed through a solar heater, then circulated through a bed of crushed, bacteria-laden shells in the topmost pond. The bacteria not only detoxify the fish wastes...
Full Diet. Then the algae-enriched water is fed into the middle pond, where the microscopic plants provide feed for tiny crustaceans called daphnids, or water fleas. Finally, water containing fleas and algae flows back into the bottom tank, where it provides a full diet for the tilapia. Nothing is wasted: in the warm greenhouse space above the ponds, the new alchemists grow vegetables even in the dead of the New England winter. The plants are fertilized by the nutrient-laden fish water. To protect their harvests against bugs, the scientists have brought insect-eating frogs, spiders and chameleons instead...
...first year, the ark's main 8,000-gallon pond has produced two 50-lb. crops of fish-a better yield, says Todd, than achieved by China's successful aquaculture ponds. Not counting the $9,000-a-year salaries (plus $2,000 per dependent) that the institute has begun to pay some of its dozen full-time staffers the entire cost of building and stocking the ark was only...
During a two-day visit to Florida last week, Gerald Ford took time out for 18 holes of golf in the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic tournament in Lauderhill. After flubbing shots in several sand traps, plunking one ball into a small pond, and missing putts all over the place, the President lamented that he was not doing very well. "About as well as you are doing with Congress?" one reporter asked. Replied Ford: "I'm going to do better with both...
...record stores to feed competing stations false information about best-selling records. The bamboozled competitor plays losing tunes while Bennett's own station blasts out the real biggies. In that ultimate radio-ratings booster, the random phone-call contest, Bennett is like a child feeding ducks on a pond. At a station in Miami, he once handed out $125,000 in less than two months. Says Lloyd Melton, station manager of Phoenix's KUPD: "He gives contest money away to the extent that he virtually buys the market...