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...should cut and run from OPEC. Why should we suffer to protect them?" Finally in September, the Saudis quietly decided to throw their production into high gear and reclaim the country's lost market share. The giant petroport at Ras Tanura and the offshore loading terminal at Ju'aymah sprang to life, their 56-in. pipes spewing more than 4 million...
...bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy sources as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang up in the past decade have mostly folded, even in the Sunbelt. Says Susan deWitt, executive director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association: "Our customers no longer feel the urgency to pursue renewable energy." The U.S. is not alone in that regard. Brazil's innovative alcohol-fuel program will...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
Freeport (pop. 6,000) is a former shoe factory town 20 miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...
...Star Wars,' President Reagan's exhaustive drive for space weaponry, is an exception to both rules. A pledge by professors not to do any federally-sponsored research with Star Wars funds sprang up at two university campuses--the University of Illinois and Cornell University--at the end of the last academic year. Now the pledge is at more than 40 campuses. At 12 of these schools, a majority of the physics faculty members have signed. One third of Harvard's physicists--several of whom said they could not remember a similar adamant outpouring since the Vietnam War--have signed...