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...Half the homework of former days, and less demanding textbooks with more pictures and wider margins. The panel found that eleventh-grade textbooks are now at a ninth-to tenth-grade level...
Palestinians On this "mother issue," as Syria's President Hafez Assad calls it, the two sides seemed wider apart than ever. The Arabs insist on Palestinian representation in Geneva. But Begin last week reiterated Israel's refusal to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which he called a group of "demented genocidists...
...network of water-reclamation plants, including the world's largest, in Orange County, which processes 15 million gal. of waste water daily at 50% less cost and with 50% less energy use than old systems. Some cities have built plants to reclaim waste water for irrigation. Farmers have wider access to wells drilled two to three times deeper than normal-as far down as 3,000 ft.-by radical new equipment that uses larger bits, more powerful engines and TV monitoring. In addition, they can call on emergency cloud-seeding planes...
Frosty Reaction. Never before has a President canceled so large a weapon system so close to production. But the crash of the B-1 has far wider ramifications than just the fate of 244 planes. For one thing, the Air Force had looked on the B-1 as a way to stave off until almost the 21st century the day when the manned bomber will be obsolete. For another. Carter's decision may make it harder to negotiate with the Soviets for a new treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The reason: by dropping the B1, he is dramatically...
Pleased with the experiment, the MPs have decided to make their bike patrols permanent. There have been a couple of problems, however. Two-hundred-pound MPs were bending the bikes out of shape, so the base plans to buy half a dozen sturdier models with thicker tires and wider seats. And a number of MPs found at first that they were all too popular: flocks of cycling children rode after them as if the pedaling policemen were Pied Pipers...