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...eight years the West German city of Duisburg has been sinking steadily-and Duisburg's anxious citizens have cheered every lost inch. In an engineering project of constantly increasing complexity, the city is being lowered on purpose, for Duisburg must sink to live...
Once more engineers came to the rescue. The recently opened Berlin Bridge has both its ends on reasonably solid ground. The six sections in between rest on piers that sink continually. On top of each pier are hydraulic jacks capable of raising the bridge as much as 30 inches. Massive roller bearings backed up by other jacks stand ready to compensate for horizontal motion. Fulltime crews patrol the bridge day and night, and when their measurements tell them the structure needs adjustment, they pump oil into the appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways...
...Sink and Social Life...
...tiny hallway between two single rooms with space for a sink mystified some girls. "What the hell is that thing in the hall?" some asked. "Why the sink?" others asked. One girl referred perplexedly to the "mysterious interconnecting hall-with-hole." Two girls complained that it would cut down the social life in the bathrooms. At present, 25 girls share a large bathroom in the brick dorms. Only one person thought the sink "terrific...
...about accidental peace. He imagined a scene that would have spelled the end of the cold war: "Five Russian divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...