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Chicago already has a municipally owned waste-processing plant with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons...
...native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that it was important to revive a distant language in which absolutely nothing could be said." Yet in a letter to Sean O'Casey, O'Brien turned temporarily serious about the language that "enables us to transform the English language and this seems to hold of people who know little or no Irish, like Joyce. It seems to be an inbred thing...
...Leys. A Belgian-born Sinologist argues persuasively that China, far from being a classless society, is a tyranny ruled by a privileged clique of bureaucrats and generals. Coming into the Country by John McPhee. Three lengthy bulletins on Alaska, handcrafted out of diligent reporting and a supple style, magically transform this vast, nearly unspoiled area into a state of mind. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that...
Photography is omnivorous to the point of cannibalism. Indeed, its nature is to assimilate everything - literally, to collect the world, to transform all reality into an infinity of images, nouns and verbs without a connecting syntax...
...lingerie markdowns has become one of New York City's great gastronomic pleasure domes. At hand in Macy's Cellar are 200 varieties of cheese, 100 jams and jellies, 50 breads, a dozen coffees and 40 teas ? as well as an Aladdin's palace of equipment wherewith to transform the raw stuff into rare meals...