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...equals 2.7 bbl. of oil and will produce 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity-only a tiny fraction of the plant's daily output, so pot power will not significantly reduce customers' bills. Officials also believe that smoke from the generator's 350-ft. stack will not turn on passersby. But just to be sure, they plan to conduct test burns. Until then, the Miami News last week advised readers, "hold your breath"-or, as the case may be, breathe deeply...
President Carter's own judicial appointments stack up as one of the most impressive parts of his record, at least among liberals and moderates. He has appointed more minorities and women to federal benches than all previous Presidents combined. Some observers have consequently questioned whether he is more concerned with diversity than merit, but C.I.J. Organizer Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment lawyer, maintains that most of his appointees are "extraordinarily highly qualified." During his Administration, Congress has created 152 additional lower-court judgeships. "With that many new judges the tendency should have been for lower quality...
...later played with the Boston Patriots, recalls preseason training camps that began at 5:30 a.m. with orange juice and proceeded to head-on tackling drills at 6 a.m. He also remembers Bryant's coming into his hospital room the day after Parilli underwent surgery and throwing a stack of new plays on the bed. The plays were designed to let Parilli stand back in the shotgun offense and throw the ball after getting a long snap from center. "Learn them," the coach told his quarterback. Says Parilli: "I thought he was crazy. I could barely move...
...have been so haphazard that no one knows just how much chemical garbage must be cleared up-or even where it is. The producers, the users and the ultimate disposers of the chemicals have not been required to keep records on what they did with waste material. Most companies stack it in barrels on back lots. Some pay haulers to cart it to reprocessing plants, high-temperature incinerators or landfills where thick clay linings prevent chemicals from leaching into the earth...
...dealt with men like Churchill on an equal basis. Reagan has worked as an actor and served a creditable eight years as Governor of the nation's most populous state. That experience may exceed Jimmy Carter's when he arrived in Washington, but it does not stack up well against Eisenhower...