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Researchers are also applying what they have learned from caves that, unlike Carlsbad, are still actively growing. Among those lessons are some alarming insights into the way industrial contaminants spread underground. In most parts of the U.S., the ground is solid and compact and water flows down through it at a rate of less than 30 m (100 ft.) a year. But about 20% of the U.S.'s fresh water flows through the myriad cavities and pores of limestone karst, often traveling 1 km (0.6 mile) overnight, taking unpredictable turns and sometimes bubbling up to the surface through a spring...
...Ford Pinto all over again, only worse," claims Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the CAS, referring to the 1970s-era compact car whose allegedly flawed gas-tank design led to the death of 27 motorists...
...Japanese market, a historic high. (Japan insists that the figure is closer to 20% when IBM shipments of chips to its Japanese subsidiary are counted.) Motorola makes the chips that operate Canon's single-lens-reflex camera, for instance, and Texas Instruments supplies the digital processors for Sony compact-disc players. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, American companies are generating $1 billion a year in extra revenues as a result of the trade pacts. U.S. semiconductor companies are turning their attention to South Korean chipmakers, who were accused of dumping memory chips this year. Last month the Commerce Department...
Finally, Chrysler spent money where it counted, notably on a $1 billion technical center where teams are developing a new generation of compact cars, among other creations, with little meddling from top brass. The company also committed $30 million to a training blitz last summer for its dealer and service networks, staging two-day workshops to prepare them for the new LH cars and the high expectations of drivers who have grown accustomed to imports...
This weekend--the weekend of the Head of the Charles regatta and the Undergraduate Council chair elections--we should think about the future of entertainment at Harvard. There is no reason why the only music we have on campus is what we individually pipe through our compact disc players, and what student bands provide at house dances and local bars. There is no reason why we should have to worry about looking lame in front of all of our East coast visitors who have some of the nation's finest film programs, concert series and comedians on their campuses...