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Cambridge's first Irish immigrants were poor and pious, displaced from their farms or starved out by the potato rot which struck in 1845. With neither the money nor the supplies to follow the Germans and the Swedes inland, they found jobs in the city's new factories and settled in tenements along the river...
...survivalist market. The properties are touted as "excellent for passive solar home/earth shelter with food-producing greenhouse." Saxon predicts a threefold increase in sales for his survival-book business which grossed $100,000 last year, carrying such titles as Granddad's Wonder Book of Chemistry, Root Rot and The Complete Book of Midwifery. Neo-Life Co. of America, a major producer based in Hayward, claims a similar increase in sales, are now topping $1 million a Survival Inc., a mail-order survival-food and -equipment outlet in Carson, boasts 5,000 customers- a 400% from a year...
...race, defendants' rights and other explosive issues. Yet as Chief Justice Warren Burger and his colleagues packed their summer bags last week, appraisers of their latest term agreed on one thing, if on little else: while some parts of the Warren Court legacy were suffering from dry rot, others had been buttressed...
...landed in the late afternoon in Walmar, Minnesota, a refreshing stop after the dry-rot outposts of the Plains. Walmar seemed typical of those clean, secure, Main Street towns that appear nestled in a green effulgence when you glide eastward over the Missouri. A short, 40 mile hitch by road took me to Flying Cloud Airport, just outside of Minneapolis, where I unrolled a sleeping bag and spent the night...
Burlington, Vt., uses wood chips to fire boilers in its municipally owned power plant. But doubts are rising about such large-scale woodburning. Huge chippers that swallow entire trees are used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills...