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...Burma had the worst record with 198 cases; in the New World, Ecuador led with 72. In the U.S., where the bacillus has found a reservoir in wild rodents (TIME, July 9, 1956), there was one probable but unconfirmed case in Texas...
...adults, but so far the average is only about 1/150 of the MFC (Maximum Permissible Concentration) that was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. The amount will surely grow, say the scientists. Even if no more weapons are tested, there may be enough strontium 90 in "the stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average for the entire population of the Northeastern U.S. will gradually climb to about...
International bodies pay one-fifth of the costs, the U.S. another fifth through economic-aid programs, and the participating governments put up the remaining three-fifths. How cheap it is for all concerned is shown by India, the world's greatest malaria reservoir. Farm workers used to lose 170 million man-days a year, and many areas suffered semistarvation because of the ravages of the disease. The direct death toll was a million a year, and dirt-poor villagers paid an average of 10 rupees each for nostrums. Already, with partial control programs, India has cut malaria cases from...
...Lennies, the torturedly egocentric Eugene Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never to get too big for their buckets...
...recently discovered rich Hassi R'Mel field (estimated reserves 700 million bbl.), only 280 miles from Algiers, and the 20 boreholes in the Edjelé field (capacity 700 million bbl.), where the oil is only 1,350 ft. underground. The same applies to the huge natural-gas reservoir at Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them to the sea have been drawn up, but they wait a settlement of the Algerian...