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...Stanford's plan is the cellulose in wastepaper and grass clippings. Although cellulose is indigestible for man, it is the basic diet of microorganisms that can trigger a natural sequence of soil enrichment. Stanford proposes to plow cellulose-containing material in garbage into the desert soil. Next, he would fertilize it with "sludge," a purified end product of sewage treatment that looks like gruel, smells like tar and is loaded with nutrients. Using a little sewage water for irrigation, Stanford says, will then turn the desert into a vast garden. His theory makes eminent sense to scientists...
...force. The Russians have dragged their feet at the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks now going on in Vienna. Only after the West reluctantly agreed to accept Hungary's observer status at the talks, effectively removing from the negotiations the 40,000 Soviet troops on Hungarian soil, was work on the agenda begun. Nixon needs some kind of reciprocal withdrawal by the Russians to hold off congressional demands for a unilateral cutback of the 300,000 U.S. forces in Europe. Brezhnev is well aware of these pressures, which suggests that he is unlikely to be conciliatory. To even...
...first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...
...more than technologists, farmers have polluted the earth-by impoverishing the soil, contaminating the water. Worse, they have polluted the soul. They first introduced the corrupting concept of proprietorship into society. They "degraded sexuality" by connecting it to "productivity." So much for the agrarian idyll...
...plan. All the private lands in the park area were classified under six categories, and density limits for development were fixed for four of them; in general, future growth will be allowed mainly around existing towns. These designations were based on a detailed inventory of such environmental factors as soil, slopes, water resources, wildlife and the potential for sewage disposal. The plan transcended simple zoning; it was in fact the most ambitious attempt ever to make development compatible with nature...