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...Human Conveyor Belt. Another underworld leader caught in the net was Sukar Narain Bakhia, 37, a 200-lb. illiterate who signs his documents with a thumbprint. He ruled the little town of Daman (formerly Portuguese Damao) south of Bombay like a personal fiefdom. By day Daman was just another sleepy seaside village with the blue Ara bian Sea lapping at its golden beaches...
...night it became a smuggler's paradise: signal lamps flickered, whistles sounded and high-power motorboats, guided by shadowy figures with walkie-talkies, roared in from the sea. When they touched shore, a human conveyor belt hustled the contraband out of the boats and into waiting trucks or rail cars...
Instead of a clanking, high-speed conveyor line, the Kalmar plant uses 250 "carriers"-18-ft.-long computer-guided platforms that glide silently over the concrete floor. Each carrier delivers the frame for a single Volvo 264 to each of the plant's 25 work teams. The teams consist of 15 to 25 workers who are responsible for a certain aspect of assembly; one team, for example, will install the car's electrical system and another will work on the interior finish...
...seen giant volcanoes like those in Hawaii. But they spotted only small mountains-a sign of minor uplifting by forces beneath the earth's crust. The new observations, he explained, suggest that the continents are being pulled apart and hauled along by semimolten rock moving like two giant conveyor belts in opposite directions...
...large producers (see box) have already begun a massive switch to new technology to boost productivity. Many, too, have started training programs to teach miners to use such innovations as conveyor belts that turn corners in the labyrinthine mines and hydraulic supports to prop up mine roofs. Explains John Corcoran, president of Consolidation Coal Co.: "They used to say that a miner needed a strong back. Now he needs a good head more." Still, since the new machinery is costly, it will badly strain many of the nation's 1,200 mining companies, particularly the small ones with little...