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Lake Forest, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, put together a slick 16-page Gift Handbook (subtitle: A Tradition of Excellence Through Giving), which lists such unbudgeted items as a $30,000 artificial lake for the 18th green of the municipal golf course, a $2.5 million indoor pool and a $1.2...
The effect has been devastating. At least 50% of the soil has oxidized and eroded, in some places exposing the barren lime rock. Buried septic tanks on Lake Okeechobee's shores have surfaced. The lake itself has receded, from a depth of 17 ft. in the 1960s to 9...
Olympic officials said they chose the Stadium because it is one of the few U.S. facilities meeting 11 of FIFA's requirements. Soccer fields are about 22 yards wider than American football playing surfaces, and FIFA requires natural turf. Most American stadiums large enough for soccer have artificial surfaces or...
If TIME had to pick a Machine of the Year, the choice should have been the Jarvik artificial heart. For the first time, man and machine have been fused at the most critical juncture, literally at the heart of human existence.
The artificial heart was working well last week, having beaten, or clicked, more than 5 million times. Part of the device had to be replaced when a valve broke two weeks after Clark's original surgery, but Dr. Robert Jarvik, the heart's designer, insists: "That was just...