Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union occasionally uses the waters of the northern Pacific as a proving ground for its arsenal of missiles. But when the Soviets test-fired two long-range missiles last week, the U.S. had cause for concern over their targets: two patches of water near Hawaii...
...Today's most acerbic critics admit that the paper is a testament to the energy of Allen Neuharth, 63. In the paper's early months, he banged out headlines and sent hundreds of peach-colored notes critiquing each day's issue. Said an editor: "When Al wants to water-ski, we all row a little harder...
...advances, Chinese agriculture is still strikingly labor- intensive; the backbreaking practice of hand planting is almost universal. Yet China is now using modern chemical fertilizers in addition to time-honored natural ones. More and more acreage is being covered by transparent plastic sheeting that warms the soil, conserves water and guards against bad weather. Veterinarians use the ancient technique of acupuncture, but increasingly they work with laser beams instead of needles...
Fisheries are a masterpiece of efficiency: the Chinese encircle them with mulberry bushes. The leaves are eaten by silkworms, whose droppings fall into the ponds and feed the fish. Various species of fish ply the different depths of the ponds, which also support ducks and provide water for pigs...
...Chicken power," says Ron Oest, exulting in his chicken house in northern New Mexico. "That's what keeps our winter water supply from freezing. See, they roost right under the tank." Up on the roost, two dozen hens ride out the winter, unwittingly warming a thousand gallons of mountain stream water stored in the black tank that bellies down from the ceiling. It is an efficient use of passive poultry energy, harnessed by a resourceful man who supports his family handsomely on $5,000 a year...