Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more and more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...
...answer may lie in a theory suggested by Astronomer Bradford A. Smith of New Mexico State University and others long before Mariner 9 took off. Smith says that water may be stored as ice in the planet's northern polar cap under a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice. That hidden water, he says, may be released periodically into the Martian atmosphere, producing regional rains and perhaps floods to erode the arid Martian surface. Bemused scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab are now calling Smith's rains Martian "monsoons...
...closest approach, while the southern polar area, tilted away, freezes and traps the moisture. What interests Smith, however, is the orientation of the poles in between those extremes. Then, both polar regions receive equal heating from the sun. The warmer outer portions of the caps release most of their carbon dioxide and any water into the atmosphere...
...Carbon Copy. The almost eerie resemblance to her mother is more than superficial. Her notes sometimes wobble with Judy's vibrato, and she has the same warming urgency and involvement in her performance. Says Singer Gail Martin, Dean Martin's daughter and Liza's childhood friend: "Her mannerisms are like her mother's. The gestures, that whole nervous thing?not quite getting the words out, and the fingers all over the place...
Still, Liza is far from a carbon copy. "She has a style of her own and a better range in her voice than...