Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLEAN AND GREEN Love crisp, dry-cleaned clothes, but hate that the solvent used to clean them (perchloroethylene) has been deemed a probable carcinogen by the EPA? Hangers, a new chain, uses eco-friendly carbon dioxide instead. The first store opened in Wilmington, N.C., with one each coming to Chicago and Providence, R.I., this month. Retail prices match competitors', but because its machines are expensive, it could be a while before a Hangers opens near...
...instance, state and federal emissions standards do not cover SUVs and light trucks, which are enormous contributors to the problem on account of their popularity and inefficiency. Additionally, these emissions standards can never address the problem of carbon dioxide production; every gasoline combustion engine generates this greenhouse gas which has proliferated in the industrial age because of human activity...
...city is like most others--mad about cars, paralyzed by car traffic, its air made unbreathable by cars and its municipal life dying of cars. If this were all, the moral would be simple: avoid Bangkok. Yet cars there, and across Europe and especially in the U.S., are efficient carbon generators. And carbon dioxide is the main ingredient in the greenhouse shield that is warming the globe and adding furious energy to epochal storms and floods...
...agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years. This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year...
...MIMID MINIATURE MINE DETECTOR With 70 million land mines buried out there, this sleek, telescopic diviner with its Miesian line couldn't have arrived sooner. Created by Gerhard Heufler, its carbon and glass fiber-reinforced plastic body comes in basic GI Joe green, weighs 3 lbs. and quickly collapses into a small backpack for transporting to remote areas. The controls take just a few minutes to master. This is good design with a good purpose...