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Feathers, beaks, combs and claws -nonedible elements-fall into a trough that flushes the refuse to a rendering plant across the street. The refuse is then converted into chicken feed that is recycled into the next generation of broilers, who become unwitting cannibals. This super-streamlined operation, which uses everything from the chicken but the cluck, is run by Stratford of Texas Inc., a company less than four years old. Chief Executive Officer Robert Gow formed it in order to apply the computerized principles of industrial engineering to the task of pleasing a nation of hungry consumers...
...away from a selfrighteous paternalism, suggesting that individuals "ask not what government can do for you: ask what you can do for yourself." The approach deserves to be heeded by groups and institutions that have made careers of living off subsidies. Harvard, which has bloated itself at the Federal trough for a number of decades, should lead the way by foregoing any further meals at public expense...
...Dashaveyor-Bendix system uses 31-passenger rubber-tired vehicles that run at 40 m.p.h. in a concrete trough (small, horizontal guide wheels prevent the car from rubbing against the walls). A single line, Bendix says, would have a capacity of 10,000 persons per hour...
...symbols are as unequivocal as the hobo markings, however. Some, like the dagger, have multiple meanings. In publishing, the dagger signals a footnote; in biology, it means "obscure species" or "incorrect citation," and in medicine, it symbolizes death. To a farmer, a dot within a semicircle signifies a drinking trough, while to a meteorologist, it means rain that does not reach the earth...
...extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron. Reserve Mining, which is owned by Armco and Republic Steel, easily obtained dumping permits on the assumption that the gray torrent of taconite would sink 900 feet to the bottom of the lake's "Great Trough...