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Nature could hardly have created anything that seems more innocuous. An invisible and odorless gas, carbon dioxide is a simple molecular linkup of just a single atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen (CO2). It constitutes a mere fraction of the atmosphere (.03% vs. about 78% for nitrogen and 20% for oxygen) but becomes dangerous to man and other air-breathing creatures when it accumulates in concentrations higher than 10% as, say, at the bottom of deep wells or mine shafts...
...Washington (Sept. 7, 9 p.m.) has Jack Albertson playing a U.S. Senator, it seems as old-hat as The Farmer's Daughter. NBC's principal new sitcom, The Waverly Wonders (Sept. 7, 8 p.m.), boasts a surprisingly ingratiating star in Joe Namath, but is otherwise a pale carbon of Welcome Back, Kotter...
Last week police found him dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the cab of a pickup truck in Emigration Canyon, a few miles east of the city. Rachel took the news of his suicide calmly, telling officers that her husband was ready for life in the next world, and returned to the suite...
...classic and a two-hour town meeting devoted to foreign policy. He knows how to work a parade so that all the people see him. When pollution became a problem in Denver, he carried a breath analyzer in his van for constituents who wanted to know the amount of carbon monoxide in their lungs. All summer he will be meeting, talking, shaking and listening. He is synchronized with his people...
...good cocktail-party chatter, it is not only very far off in the future, but also seems to be impractical and to present unsolvable ethical and social problems. Says Nobel Laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure: "What's to be gained? A carbon copy of yourself? Oh, if the Shah of Iran wanted to spend his oil millions on cloning himself, that's fine with me. But if either of my young sons wanted to become a scientist, I would suggest he stay away from research in cloning humans. There...