Word: buts
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In the meantime, independent thinkers are busy hatching schemes to beat the system. "A great learning process is going on," says Madison Draftsman Dan Greco, who describes himself as a "lay expert" in conservation. On Block Island, R.I., where the last sizable stands of trees were cut and sent up...
It is easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes...
Proper house insulation is the first prerequisite for the effective use of any energy-saving device. The newly designed $1,400 Blueray furnace, for example, captures as much as 90% of the energy that is locked in a gallon of heating oil, vs. the 70% recovered by a conventional furnace...
Will worker productivity plummet along with the mercury in frosty offices? Possibly, says Dr. Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that...
The young Iranian's name (Behzadnia) was difficult to pronounce, so American journalists called him Yellow Jack et, after the color of his windbreaker. He approached the representatives of ABC, CBS and NBC in Tehran with a tantalizing prospect: an interview with one of the hostages at the U.S...