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Freeze-dried until needed, then sprinkled on straw and tossed into the ocean, the superbugs could presumably make quick work of oil spills by breaking down the crude into harmless protein and carbon dioxide. Says Chakrabarty, 42, now a researcher at the University of Illinois Medical Center: "You can make tons of these microorganisms in a matter of days." Nor, he says, would the bacteria pose any danger. After the feast, they would die for want...
...Iowa, Tennessee, Massachusetts and New Jersey, toxics such as benzene, carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethylene-all known or suspected carcinogens -have seeped into ground-water supplies. "Thousands throughout the U.S. have been drinking water fouled by metals, pesticides and potentially cancer-causing solvents used to cut oil and grease," Brown writes. "In such a milieu, it is not surprising that the U.S. finds itself today in the throes of what can only be termed a cancer epidemic...
...complications continue at the refinery. Heavy oil molecules, compared with those in lighter crudes, have a higher proportion of carbon atoms and fewer hydrogen atoms. Since the energy potential of oil depends on the number of hydrogens, 40% to 50% of a barrel of heavy oil comes out as low-energy, low-priced products, such as industrial fuel oil and bunker oil for ships. Getting more gasoline requires a multimillion-dollar investment in complex equipment to break down these heavy residual fuels...
Suicide runs through Get Happy!!, sometimes surfacing directly, always thumping as an unheard thematic backbeat, life's metaphor for despair. It's the message of "Five Gears in Reverse," shouted inside a garage, sounds like it, in a voice choked with carbon monoxide. Elvis sings...
...Mathilde Krim, a researcher at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Interferon is a kind of chemical Paul Revere." When a virus invades a cell, instead of turning out the proteins needed to sustain the cell and other parts of the body, the manufacturing plant begins to produce carbon copies of the virus. Eventually bloated with the alien bodies, the cell almost literally comes apart at the seams and dies, spilling out its cargo of new viruses, which promptly move toward healthy cells to repeat the process and spread the infection...