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...then spend millions finding ways to get rid of the surplus and paying farmers not to plant anything. Now as a person involved with health, I am flabbergasted to learn that the nation that spends the most on research directed toward fighting disease, and that boasts one of the longest life expectancies in the world, should pay such little attention to the aged benefactors of that research...
...dime and a four-second drop, he attains momentary fame. The coin goes into the pedestrian turnstile on San Francisco's Golden Gate, at 4,200 ft. the second longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.* Since the west side is closed to foot traffic, he walks along the bridge's east flank, ignoring a magnificent view of the city. Having reached the center span, he climbs without hesitation over the waist-high guard rail and-again without hesitation-jumps. Even if he hits feet first after a 250-ft. descent, the impact velocity of about...
...Longest: the Verrazano Narrows, completed in 1964, which stretches 4,260 ft. from Brooklyn to Staten Island...
...Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...
...bicycle paths be provided for every 100,000 residents, and the Department of the Interior has plans for nearly 100,000 miles of bicycle trails and paths to be constructed in the next ten years. Already there are at least 15,000 miles of bike roads in the U.S. Longest is the 332-mile Wisconsin Bikeway, stretching from the state's eastern edge at Lake Michigan straight across to the Mississippi River. San Francisco boasts a 7½-mile bike trail in Golden Gate Park. New York's Central Park drives are closed to motorists and crammed with...