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...waistlines keep expanding, so too do beauty resorts-the places that thin people like to call fat farms. Once the exclusive retreats of aging women seeking youth in a steam box, these all-purpose spas are now catering to a new clientele: the flabby, frazzled American male. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, 5 ft. 10 in., 185 Ibs., recently took the cure at La Costa, near San Diego, Calif. His report on one of the U.S.'s newest and most lavish spas...
Before the Afar triangle sinks back into the depths-an event that Tazieff reassuringly says is still a considerable time off-the region could enjoy unmatched prosperity. Because it is so geologically active, he speculates that underground fields of superheated water and steam lie just below the desert floor. If Ethiopia and her neighbors tapped this free source of power, they could produce millions of kilowatt hours of electricity at extremely low cost. The electricity could then be used to support large new industries-aluminum, fertilizers and petrochemicals. Thus, one of the world's most forbidding regions might...
...resignation of Alex S. Inkeles, professor of Sociology, has added steam to the movement of sociologists within the Social Relations Department who want to establish themselves as a separate department...
...Congress last week (see ENVIRONMENT), proposed strict new Government standards to eliminate virtually all auto-caused pollution by 1975. Detroit could accomplish this by replacing the internal-combustion engine with hybrid cars that combine a small gas engine and an electric motor, or engines that run entirely on electricity, steam or even natural gas. G.M. has an XP-883 test model that can use gasoline, electric or hybrid systems. While some of these cars may hold long-term promise, each is said to be too costly or impractical for the here...
...first time since World War II, German companies invested more money abroad ($575 million) than foreign firms put into enterprises in Germany ($550 million). The trend gathered steam last year, partly because the revaluation of the mark increased the quantity of foreign plant, equipment and stock that German currency could buy. At the present rate of expansion, German business within a few years will own more plant abroad than foreign companies own in Germany...