Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...careful mixture of natural gas and air that is almost smokeless, and 25,000-h.p. fans blow the few exhaust fumes through a cooling water spray that removes all solid particles. The ultimate discharge from the stacks is made up of relatively equal parts of warm oxygen and carbon dioxide...
AUTOS emit the bulk of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Under the new rules, clean air means a maximum nine parts of CO per million parts of air during an eight-hour period. Hydrocarbons are limited to .24 p.p.m. for a maximum of three hours...
Among cities where sufficient data are available to make predictions, admits Ruckelshaus, only Cincinnati "could come close" to meeting the federal carbon monoxide deadline-providing automakers meet their own deadline. To reduce particulate and sulfur oxide emissions to required levels, big cities like New York would have to vastly increase their use of low-polluting natural gas, which is already in short supply. Most cities would also have to cut or even ban peak-hour auto commuting-and make up for it by building new, nonpolluting rapid transit systems. Unfortunately, the Government is unlikely to share the cities' staggering...
Atypical Situation. Mannheim, commanded by Major Harry Crawford, houses 300 of the 425 G.I. prisoners in Europe and is almost a carbon copy of the worst civilian prison facilities in the U.S. Guarded by four watchtowers with spotlights, the stark brick structure is surrounded by two 7-ft.-high rows of barbed wire. Few if any prisoners at Mannheim are rehabilitated. Homosexuality is rampant and drugs abound. Tension between white and black inmates is so bad that guards simply let each group run its part of the jungle. Says one white inmate: "You can survive if you stay away from...
...three leading characters are a bitter, nearly mad mother and her two tormented daughters; its plot concerns a science-class experiment with radiation on marigolds by one of the daughters. The underlying concept occurred to Zindel while he was preparing a class lecture. "I remember thinking that all carbon atoms on earth had to come from the sun," he says. "The idea of being linked to the universe by these atoms, which really don't die, gave me a feeling of meaning." The mother was his own, he says, "in nightmarish exaggeration...