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...warming the globe in a greenhouse effect. A fusion plant would give off much less radiation than do conventional nuclear-power generators. And it would essentially run on seawater. Any scientist who managed to harness fusion would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize for Physics (and probably Peace as well), untold riches from licensing the process and a place in history alongside Einstein and slightly above Edison. Any scientist who confirmed the claim would get part of the resulting avalanche of research dollars, and anyone who shot it down would gain acclaim within the scientific community...
...billion Central Artery project, the rebuilding of a highway that runs through the heart of downtown Boston. To relocate much of the highway underground, workers will have to excavate 13 million sq. yds. of earth, tearing up countless sewers and other subterranean tunnels. The problem: they are home to untold thousands of the city's rats, one of the largest such colonies in the country. Rudely evicted, the critters will emerge on the surface and start looking around for new homes...
...third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack of antibiotics, disposable syringes and blood supplies. About 6,500 Soviet soldiers were dispatched to aid in the rescue. By Saturday, 1,500 survivors had been pulled from the ruins, but untold thousands remained buried beneath the rubble...
...part of the problem stems from the country's extreme poverty and technological limitations. Untold numbers of poorly designed earthen dikes gave way last week. The embankments lack solid foundations, notes James Conway of the U.N.'s World Food Program, "because they don't even have rocks in Bangladesh." WFP has been donating millions of dollars' worth of wheat a year to the Dhaka government, which gives it to laborers for building dikes in a food-for-work program. Laments Andrei Filotti, a hydraulic engineer who advises Dhaka on flood containment: "We have poured $200 million into these dikes...
...themselves vegetarians. Vegetarian Times magazine, based in Oak Park, Ill., claims that fully 2 million of them have gone over to vegetarianism since 1985. The publication, which features Vegetarian Actor River Phoenix on its current cover, has seen its circulation double in the past two years to 150,000. Untold other Americans are aspiring vegetarians or semivegetarians who indulge in some chicken and fish. The new Vegetarian Times restaurant guide, to be published this month, will list more than a thousand vegetarian eateries in the U.S. and Canada, compared with just 350 in 1978. Next month potential converts in upwards...