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Back in the hardscrabble coal country of the Mountain State, Robert Carlyle Byrd is al mighty, unbeatable and as reliable as Carter's famous little pills. Yet for many years some liberal opponents on Capitol Hill loathed him as much as any man in Washington. Defensive and insecure, driven and intense, he often said that the Senate was made up of "workhorses and show horses," a distinction clearly made in order of preference. Through sheer will and work, Byrd overcame poverty as well as charges that he was a racist and the Senate's Uriah Heep, the classic hypocrite...
...different avian species but also to detect changes in their habitats, set up wildlife sanctuaries and even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many species-peregrine falcons, ospreys, brown pelicans-because of widespread use of insecticides...
...culled from the garbage (just about anything that is thrown away) before the remaining material, mostly cellulose, is treated with chemicals, then pulverized. That technique permits the fuel to be stored without decomposing. The powder can be burned more efficiently than raw garbage and can be used with oil, coal or natural gas. For example, a CEA plant in East Bridgewater. Mass., converts 1,200 tons of garbage a day into Eco-Fuel II, which is shipped 160 miles to Waterbury, Conn., where it is burned with oil to generate steam in a power plant...
...Fuel II will sell for about the same price as coal or natural gas, which is well below the going rate for imported oil. Says CEA President Robert Beningson: "The market for resource recovery is almost limitless." Beningson, a man who thinks big, estimates that if all the garbage in the country were converted to powdered fuel, it would add the equivalent of 2 million bbl. a day to the nation's oil supplies, or about the same amount as the oil that will flow through the Alaska pipeline at peak capacity...
...anything, there is a more powerful undercurrent of volatility in Bronson; Director John Huston once described him as "a hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing...