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Spiritual Ballast. Some preachers agree with the Jeb Magruder excuse that "situation ethics"-justifying civil disobedience in the name of higher principle-helped create the atmosphere for Watergate. But Religious Historian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago's Divinity School dismisses that argument outright: "Everyone knows these guys weren't acting on higher principle." Marty sees a deeper moral problem at the root of Watergate. It is the phenomenon of 20th century "amorality -a combination of technology, propaganda and administrative mentality; the kind of dangers Kafka and Orwell warned us of. The problem of the future...
Officially approved axles have frequently been altered, said Lange, and trim has been added for the sake of ballast. The customary limit on construction costs is $75, but Lange once had an offer from a professional car builder at $2,500. As for the rule that the boys must build their own cars, Lange said, "It is common knowledge that it is next to impossible for any eleven-year-old boy or girl to build a racer that...
...world's oil pollution, which, contrary to popular belief, is not accidental spillage or the breakup of supertankers like Torrey Canyon. Most of this pollution is actually caused by routine tanker operations. Before entering harbor to take on a new load of crude oil, sea water used as ballast on the return trip is flushed into the ocean; it includes a small amount of crude oil (usually about one-half of 1% of the tanker's capacity) left over from the previous load. In this manner, the world's tanker fleets annually dump an estimated...
...potassium phosphates into each. Shipboard compressors were used to bubble air into the tanks through a perforated hose, thus turning them into ideal "bacterial fermenters," says Rosenberg. Then a flaskful of RAG1 bacteria was poured into one tank. Six and a half days later, the tanker discharged its ballast. The unbugged tank emitted an ugly black slick. But there was hardly any slick from the other tank; the bacteria had multiplied and taken the polluting elements...
...scraped when ships put in for periodic repairs. This is especially important because the scrubbing is done with high-pressure hoses; the nozzles sometimes develop charges of static electricity that can ignite oil fumes lingering in the tanks. Moreover, Rosenberg believes that his bugs may turn even the ballast water into profit. He figures that after the bacteria have cleaned the tanks in a 200,000-ton supertanker, the ballast could yield some 200 tons of dewaxed oil (which can be made into gasoline and other petroleum products). Beyond that, they can be harvested to produce about 150 tons...