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Charles P. (Newt) Newton is talking about the tides as he stands on the pristine floor of a factory he built for the Italians in a South Carolina swamp. "They move the building 13/10,000ths of an inch twice a day," he says, smiling. "And there's not a thing we can do about it." Controlling nature...

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