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...delivers the verdict to 80 spectators seatedin his alcove. "She weight a bloody ton. I thinkshe drinks beer and watches soaps," he says, usingthe same joke he made 20 minutes ago. "She hasgood doming, correct eye size, shape, andplacement, roundness of nose, fullness of cheek,and when she holds her ears right, it's reallyquite nice." Again, the dramatic pause. Then,"This is my second best cat in [the] show...
...Clark's youth, glistening 27-kg (60-lb.) silver Chinooks and red-fleshed sockeyes would leap into the nets. The commercial salmon season was 137 days long, and a day's catch would often exceed a ton. But now the sockeyes have vanished and the silver Chinooks have dwindled. The season is one-third as long, and Clark and his two sons are lucky if they catch 136 kg (300 lbs.) each day. Soon they may have to quit the business altogether because of a broad effort to rebuild the salmon populations on the lower Columbia and its main tributary...
Considering that there are 350 million tons of ozone in the stratosphere, it would take 350,000 trips by specially outfitted 747 freighters, which can carry 100 tons of cargo, to replace even a tenth of the protective gas. Alternatively, climate engineers could shoot multi-ton bullets made up of frozen ozone into the upper reaches of atmosphere. But the technology for designing and building the tens of thousands of big guns that would be required does not yet exist -- not to mention the fact that compressed ozone is dangerously explosive. Furthermore, neither of these solutions attacks the heart...
While scientists estimate that approximately one half-ton of meteorites falls to Earth every year, most of this matter is not recoverable. Meteorites can be found with relative ease, however, on the snow and ice of Antarctica, leading geologists like Marvin to travel there in search of samples...
College campus contains the components necessary to produce effective social and political activism--student groups. And we have a ton of them. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND), Citystep, the Harvard Democrats and Republicans, Harvard for Harkin, Students for Clinton, Students for Kerrey, even Students for Agran. You get the picture...