Word: carbons
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...soccer ball named after a Harvard dropout and made from, and shaped like, a carbon molecule will be marketed in the United States beginning next month...
Perhaps this was shown most clearly by Bush's performance at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development last June. As Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator William K. Reilly sought to formulate a version of the international treaty to curb carbon dioxide emissions that would be agreeable to Bush, the president criticized Reilly for suggesting support for binding limits...
Bush's lack of leadership was astounding and embarrassing for American representatives at the Rio conference. His administration remains the biggest obstacle to an international agreement to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions...
...increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards which would raise fuel efficiency standards 20 percent by 1996 and a further 20 percent by the year 2001. Such regulations would, according to energy experts, save two million barrels of oil per day and eliminate 300 million tons of carbon dioxide by the year 2008. However, Quayle and his council rejected the proposal, arguing that it would force the automobile industry to produce lighter and smaller cars that would result in greater traffic fatalities...
...effort any easier. Authorities there, furious over the Iceman's mismanaged recovery, declared that the mummy is the archaeological equivalent of "a Leonardo" and warned that it should not be damaged "in any way." When Innsbruck sent out the snippets of flesh "no larger than a sweetening tablet" for carbon dating by experts at Oxford and in Zurich, the Italian government threatened legal action...