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...initial success of the Israeli program has awakened enthusiasm for solar ponds in the U.S. Under an agreement with Israel, a group led by Southern California Edison is planning a five-megawatt demonstration facility at the Salton Sea, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Under Government funding, scientists will investigate other potential U.S. solar pond sites, including San Francisco Bay and Utah's Great Salt Lake. Though their estimate may be somewhat optimistic, solar pond boosters figure that the new technology could eventually meet as much as 12% of U.S. energy needs and even more in Third World...
...hottest debate on low pass rates is going on now in New Jersey. Nearly 53% of the 1,491 people who took that state's test last July struck out; five years earlier, a mere 17% failed. Yet today's students are no dolts. Says Paul Tractenberg, a Rutgers law professor: "For the most part, they are as diligent and in some ways more driven now than earlier." One cause of the high fail rate is a 1976 decision to alter the grading. Before, any student who answered 140 of the multiple-choice questions correctly passed automatically...
Every Friday, weekend gamblers from Southern California make the five-hour drive to Las Vegas. When the radio signals fade, deep boredom sets in. But next month a new FM station, KRXV, will come to the rescue with news, weather, tourist information, plus the music of Vegas headliners. Owner Howard Anderson won approval for his station, which will beam its signal directly along the highway, by arguing that his listeners form a "mobile community" with common needs. Not all of them are wagerers, however. Seems that fully 25% of the 23 million people who drive the route each year peel...
...couldn't refuse. ABC, NBC and his own CBS each sought to make him its evening-news anchorman. Each asked him to help shape its newscast. And each, before the bidding was over, had offered a staggering reward if he would just sign up: $8 million spread over five years...
...produce, less than half the average cost of an hour-long entertainment program. Besides, as network executives are evidently learning, reality can be more entertaining than its imitation. Says CBS News President William Leonard: "There just isn't enough mediocrity to go around in the fiction area. In five years, I think more than 50% of programming will be informational...