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Woman Power. The government has managed to meet the monthly rice ration of 30 pounds for the average worker, but the staple is now mixed with large amounts of Soviet wheat. Many find the result unpalatable. Domestic rice production takes about 40 times the number of man-hours per pound that it does in Russia or Japan-partly because women workers, who now constitute more than 80% of the labor force, tire quickly in the paddies. According to Hanoi Moi, the capital's main daily, food lines have grown so long that some stores pass out "appointment numbers," assigning...
...Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince Lombardi's starchiness: $50 a minute is the price of tardiness to any meeting, $50 a pound is the cost of excess fat at Thursday weigh-ins. No mustaches or mutton chops are permitted. Long hair is utterly unthinkable. How does Stram reconcile his own flamboyant wardrobe (30 suits, often set off by a red vest) with his fundamentalist attitude? "If it's my team, things...
...original Lost City meteorite probably weighed several hundred pounds, and it created a bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...
...Nations convention on narcotic drugs, Turkey is one of eight countries permitted to export opium poppies for medical purposes. Some 70,000 farmers, most of them supporters of the ruling Justice Party, count on the opium produce for at least some of their earnings. The government pays $5 a pound, though many growers sell part or all of their crops on the black market for as much as five times the official price. (Pure heroin sells for at least $8,000 a pound in the underworld.) In 1968, the U.S. gave Turkey $3,000,000 to curtail opium production, half...
Scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory in Cambridge, as well as at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, are currently studying our latest extraterrestrial visitor- a 21- pound meteorite found last Friday near Lost City, Oklahoma...