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Diamonds, the crystalline form of carbon, are usually formed when organic solids are subjected to intense heat and pressures. But under the right conditions, the glittering crystals can also be manufactured from a carbon- rich gas -- something the Navy's lab has in abundant supply. Its facilities abut Washington's giant Blue Plains Waste Water Treatment Plant, which each day generates 650,000 cu. ft. of methane (CH4). Tapping that supply, chemist James Butler passed a sample of the gas over a filament of tungsten glowing at 4,000 degrees F. To his delight, a sparkling film of synthetic diamonds...
...good tan. But for Gore, who played possum while the others scrambled up North, his Southern victories could prove as evanescent as Bob Dole's I'm-one-of-you Iowa sweep. Few voters displayed any deep commitment to the still ill-defined Gore candidacy; even in states that abut his native Tennessee, Gore won much of his support in the final 72 hours of the campaign. As Georgia Democratic Chairman John Henry Anderson, a Dukakis supporter, put it, "People voted for Gore because he was viewed in the end as the Southern candidate. No one else caught...
Most of MassPIRG's $1 million annual budget comes from private donations, but abut one-third of it is generated from a $2 to $3 charge on the semester tuition bills of students at schools with campus chapters...
...course, there's one place where the Prods and Taigs [Catholics] are at peace." The cabbie grins and points to the Protestant and Catholic cemeteries that abut each other. "Yet space is tight even there. The Catholics is spillin' over on the bogland. If you bury people in that, the coffins will pop out of the ground...
...appointed without incident to a top-level post the year before, as a women, Cunningham's youth automatically made her suspect. The most retrograde lesson yet drawn from the affair comes from a Business School professor, writing in the Wall Street Journal, who cautions corporate executives to be careful abut promoting women quickly merely because of the suspicious that inevitably arise...