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This method of growing plants without soil has long been known to scientists but has only recently begun to attract amateurs' attention. In the simplest hydroponic systems, the plant roots are anchored in gravel or perlite, through which the gardener periodically shoots water and inorganic nutrient solutions. Thus for outdoor hydroponicists there is no digging, weeding, composting or spraying. The indoor gardener is spared the necessity of messing with loam in the home and, if careful, can avoid the danger of bacterial infection around his plants...
Hydroponically grown vegetables taste about the same as those grown in soil. But most of them are bigger; water-borne tomatoes, for instance, may be 20% larger than earth-borne ones. The vegetables also mature much faster. The Lincoln Park Zoo maintains continuous production of fresh barley grass for the animals by "planting" two 50-lb. bags or so of seed every day; each new crop of grass is ready for harvesting in a week, compared with the six to eight weeks required for soil-grown barley...
...guilt or provocation, even the much more destructive episode in Viet Nam or Nixon's tilt toward Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, are not part of Brzezinski's scheme. Nor does he take into account widespread American economic imperialism, often depriving Third World peasants even of the very soil under their feet (see Food First,) by Lappe and Collins). All evil is from the Soviet camp, he argues. Therefore he will not apologize to Iran even for the sake of 50 American lives; and when I asked him why not, after his talk, he cited "national pride...
...better known as Statia, and Saba; French St. Barthelemy, a.k.a. St. Barts; and the British islands of Anguilla, Montserrat and Barbuda. These islands were named but largely ignored by the Spanish because they offered little promise of quick riches; for the most part, they have scant rainfall and thin soil. Thus they were generally spared the excesses of European rivalry that devastated rich plantation colonies like Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba and Hispaniola. They also have escaped exploitation. They cannot be reached by direct flight from the U.S. or Europe, and they closely regulate development of any kind...
...cost $1.5 billion-a conventional reactor costs $1 billion-is too expensive. But the plant's builders, a French-Italian-West German consortium, counter that the fast-breeder's electricity will be competitive with oil-generated power. The bonus, says Giscard, is that "if uranium from French soil is used in fast-breeder reactors, we in France will have potential energy reserves comparable to those of Saudi Arabia...