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- <text id=90TT3409>
- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: High Concept Prize
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 25
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> HIGH CONCEPT PRIZE: NEIL PICKARD
- </p>
- <p> The minister for minerals and energy in New South Wales,
- Australia, offered tittering legislators a plan for a low-cost
- energy source: confiscated marijuana. Burning pot to produce
- electricity made sense, he claimed, because the crop gives off
- eight times as much heat as coal.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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