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...know about agriculture? Secretary Hardin is an economist. You can take all the economists in the world and lay them end to end, and they'll never come to a conclusion. My initial reaction to Dr. Butz? Oh hell, another professor! I was hoping for someone from the soil. But I'm reserving judgment until I find out what his policies and programs are going...
...industrial community. Later this month Boeing will begin construction of a 42-in. irrigation pipeline. The company plans to plant a potato crop in March, and it has sublet part of the tract to Japanese chicken growers, who will use the land to grow alfalfa. To enrich the sandy soil. Boeing and a Portland group, Columbia Processors Cooperative, are experimenting with a fertilizer made from Portland's waste products. "Even for the Boeing Co.," says Aerospace Vice President Oliver Boileau, "it's never too late to start hauling manure, irrigating land and planting potatoes...
Commoner does not oppose all technology. Indeed, he recognizes the need to develop nonpolluting systems of land transportation, for example, and ways of returning garbage directly to the soil. But he urges a return wherever possible to products that are kind to the environment, and suggests the use of natural rubber instead of synthetic material, and soap instead of detergents. That approach would mean the closing down of huge industries and would be immensely costly-at least $600 billion in the U.S. alone, Commoner estimates, or more likely $40 billion annually for 25 years...
...prison inside a prison, enriched by its own wall that was manned by armed guards. Even if Jackson could have somehow scaled that first wall, he would only have made it back to the main yard and would still have another wall between himself and the free soil of Point San Quentin. "Two chances," Fred said, "Slim and none...
...people for over twenty years can only be viewed as the most cynical manipulation of public sympathies. Chiang Kai-shek is nothing but a dictator defeated in a civil was whose existing regime has been propped up by massive American military and economic aid. America's presence on Chinese soil and interference in the internal disputes of the Chinese are illegal acts of aggression as defined by international law. They are also an affront to the peaceful intentions and humanity of the American people. If Americans are concerned about the fate of the Taiwanese, they should demand that our government...