Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...environment is seriously threatened by the prodigal garbage of the world's richest economy. In the President's own boyhood town of Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country...
...Russians copied from the Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
...save-the-earth bit by displaying some "clean" concept cars. Chrysler unveiled its ESX2, which combines lightweight construction, plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions by 1999. But while the Big Three talk about adding a salad bar to the auto buffet, they are busily cooking...
...reason to be worried. This week the prosecution will begin showing the eight-woman, four-man jury what FBI agents found in April 1996 when they raided Kaczynski's Montana cabin. The list of exhibits includes the fully-armed bomb found at the shack, bomb-making parts and chemicals, carbon copies of the Unabomber's manifesto and taunting letters to his victims and the news media. There are also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that Kaczynski kept for more than two decades. Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using a key found...
...damage another person's property, I have to restore it. The U.S. pollutes the earth's atmosphere by producing 22% of the world's carbon-dioxide emissions. Will it repair the damage it produces? And will that even be possible? ANTONI FERNANDEZ LABORDA Barcelona...