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Israel's exports, from armaments to oranges to wine, have grown from $1.4 billion in 1973 to $10.2 billion last year, but not enough to offset $13.9 billion in imports for 1980. Israel's swelling deficit is reflected in its shrinking currency. The depreciated Israeli pound was renamed the shekel 14 months ago and was worth 25?; last week the shekel was selling at an embarrassing...
...doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
Cheesemakers are always trying to find something profitable to make from whey, the liquid part of milk left behind in producing cheeses. For every pound of cheese there are 9 lbs. of whey, or nearly 40 billion lbs. in America each year. Half has industrial uses, but half goes to waste. Environmental laws forbid dumping it in rivers. So some major cheesemakers maintain vast, costly, smelly lagoons of decomposing whey...
...pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie is a mindless, though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless...
...physics major, Halem is currently researching "nuclear acoustic resonance" with Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics. "We should be the first in the world to find the resonance we're looking for," Halem said...