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Within 50 years, the U.S.'s demand for fresh water will greatly exceed its supply. Rather than wait for the great thirst, some politicians want to pipe water south from Canada's full rivers, much to the Canadians' displeasure. Others propose desalting ocean water, though the cost (about 20? per 1,000 gallons) is still high. Relatively speaking, by far the best bet is to recycle sewage water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sewage Tastes Good Like Water Should | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

Immense Feat. Back in the 1950s, when the plan was promoted by Southern California land developers, it seemed a safe, simple way to link the north's water to the south's thirst. Ecology was a secondary consideration-if it was considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Quenching California's Thirst | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

Psychiatrist Chien wisely refrains from overinterpreting the result of his experiment. Indeed, he allows for the possibility that because his subjects were predominantly Irish-with a legendary thirst for suds-the salubrious effect of the beer therapy might have been enhanced a certain amount. But he found that if old men, although defined as mentally ill, are given the chance to play a normal social role, they will eagerly respond, and symptoms of senility and mental illness are diminished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Beer for the Aged | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...coffins, for none can be obtained, but wrapped in blankets, and many children in old newspapers. Survivors wander around in a daze, like sleepwalkers, looking for food and water. Many children were choked to death by the dust that hung over the city. All we have is thirst, hunger, the stench of dead bodies and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Infernal Thunder Over Peru | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...unreadable. Through a number of verbal and conceptual errors, the authors have smothered parts of their story in gooey, impenetrable prose. 'Boring' is too simple a term for the complex problems that plague the book, but readers may find the effect the same." Alumni with a truly unquenchable thirst for the facts about that April, however, are best off with this book...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: From the Coop Those Harvard Books | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

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