Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation U.N. World Climate Conference that ended last week in Berlin, a lobbyist for the "Global Climate Coalition," a consortium of U.S. coal, gas and oil producers, bustled about confidently, warning against "dramatic, excessive" carbon dioxide controls and against "stifling" economic growth with "irrational new emission caps." The conference saw global warming differently, perhaps influenced by the Rhode Island-size hunk of shelf ice that broke off Antarctica recently. Jokers outside the conference peddled cans of Official Heisse Luft, or hot air, but the nations gathered wits and courage, and voted to begin negotiating precise CO2 limits...
...achievement. The performers condensed the plots of all three movies into a blitzkrieg show lasting just over one hour. "It was delightful," says Bezreh. With novelties like a Planet Alderon that exploded into an audience-showering rain of candy and complementary freeze-pops during the Hans Solo-frozen-in-carbon scene, the show drew an enthusiastic crowd...
While Nelson developed some of the theory behind these new techniques, Lieber has been working to synthesize new materials, including carbon nitride, a substance perhaps harder than diamond, which could be used for protective coatings and new cutting tools, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...natural to think that the greening of the peninsula might signal the much-debated advent of global warming, caused by the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases released by the burning of fossil fuels. As long ago as 1978 a paper in the journal Nature urged scientists to look to Antarctica for early indications of the so-called greenhouse effect--among them the breakup of ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula...
...allowed to take 15-minute breaks every four hours. So I crank up the Home Theater, just to blow the carbon out of its cylinders, and zip down the main street of the Metaverse to a club that specializes in my kind of tunes. I'm still ``wearing'' my Raster uniform, but I don't care -- I'm just one of thousands of Rasters running up and down the street on their breaks...