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DIED. RON LUCIANO, 57, former umpire; from suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning; in Endicott, New York. Luciano's 11 Astroturf-chewing years of calls and confrontations paved the way for a second career as a sports commentator and author of books titled with baseball-related puns...
Technologies ranging from the telegraph to the telephone, from typewriter to carbon paper have all made mass organization easier and cheaper. And since the 1960s, the technologies have unfolded relentlessly: computerized mass mailing, the personal computer and printer, the fax, the modem and increasingly supple software for keeping tabs on members or prospective members. The number of associations, both political and apolitical, has grown in lockstep with these advances. One bellwether -- the size of the American Society of Association Executives -- went from 2,000 in 1965 to 20,000 in 1990. As for sheerly political organizations: no one knows exactly...
...multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks" on the women's team, says, "Even idiots sailing a fast boat every day can do a pretty good...
Unusually smoggy Chicago weather set off thousands of newly-required home carbon monoxide detectors today, forcing city officials to plead for calm. The Fire Department responded to at least 2,000 calls in the past 24 hours from frightened residents who worried the alarms signaled high levels of the noxious, odorless gas. But forecasters attributed the phenomena to a "temperature inversion" that trapped several days' worth of smog in the area. Three months ago, Chicago became the first major city to require the devices. But today, fire officials criticized one of the largest manufacturers, First Alert Inc of suburban Aurora...
...government panel recommended to the Federal Trade Commission that cigarette labels be changed to contain more specific information on the maximum amount of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide a smoker can inhale by puffing longer and harder. Also on the panel's wish list: disclosure of the known carcinogens in cigarette smoke...