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Harvard Hopes Soar...
...that there are still huge, undiscovered reserves of natural resources, say, under the oceans. Testing that possibility, Meadows' computer shows that industrialization will accelerate-and the resulting runaway pollution will overwhelm the biosphere. Might not new technological devices control pollution? Sure, says the computer, but then population would soar and outstrip the ability of land to produce food. Every advance in technology consumes scarce natural resources, throws off more pollutants and often has unwanted social side effects, like creating huge and unmanageable unemployment. What if pollution was abated, the birthrate halved and food production doubled? The readouts...
...that this had happened in the communities many of them had moved away from. New York Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, carrying his protest to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, also argued that soil conditions on the site were so bad that construction costs would soar, and that the lack of air conditioning in the plans meant that airplane noise from nearby La Guardia Airport would be intolerable for the residents. After hearing Buckley, Romney agreed that he would review the project, even though his department had already approved the necessary financing...
...Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles there is an interchange where two ramps take off from opposite sides of the road and soar two hundred feet in the air, curving so close together at their peak that a man could jump from one ramp to the other. I think that it's the most beautiful place in the world...
Strange Wave. After it is captured, Mariner will be sent into a huge lopsided orbit tilted at an angle of about 65° to the Martian equator. Making a full circuit every twelve hours, the spacecraft will come as close as 750 miles to the Martian surface, then soar out to a distance of some 10,500 miles. During its expected three-month working life -longer if the power supply holds out-Mariner will radio back more than 5,000 television pictures, mapping at least 70% of the planetary surface. In addition, its two cameras will take the first relatively...