The Harkonnens used to control Dune, which despite its awful climate and grubby desert nomad people, has incalculable strategic significance: its great southern desert is the only place in the galaxy where a fantastically valuable commodity called "melange" or "spice" is mined.
Following the Christmas Bowl, Japan begins to gather the best football players to form a team to represent it at the American Football Youth World Championship, where a Most Valuable Player (MVP) will be rewarded an NFL contract and $3 million.
He was a striking victim of the not unfamiliar process where-by a valuable museum field man or indoor researcher is turned in middle life intoa somewhat less valuable administrator.
All the schools named help parents to fund or fundraise for the trips, and encourage students to self-fund where possible, as a valuable life lesson.
The salty, fishy broth that results from the curing was called garum in ancient Rome, where it was a valuable commodity, shipped in amphorae (tall jugs) around the empire.
Maybe the Frenchman should also get a pad in Imperial County, Calif., where Vivendi has a valuable, and much fought-over, asset: water rights.
Here is where I draw a valuable lesson from my early years in Synanon: creating a racially integrated society has to be a conscious choice.
As a model, the freestanding midwifery unit is a growing and sustainable phenomenon in many countries, including in rural areas, where they are a valuable feature of the publically funded maternity system.
This may indicate that in a practical process where hydrogen and a valuable metabolite are to be produced simultaneously, the best option may be to target production of a metabolite that is produced in smaller amounts, but which have a correspondingly higher market value.
