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...radiance of the setting sun or the swirling fog around San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge takes on an unearthly quality belying its 389,000 cu. yds. of concrete, 83,000 tons of structural steel and 80,000 miles of wire, much of it suspension cables a yard thick. From the Marin County headlands to the deck of a sailboat on the bay, the grand old span and its 746-ft. towers appear to be something they are not: floating, delicate, an awesome and ghostly setting appropriate for a James Bond thriller...
Harrelson had a destination in mind. After he convinced the commissioners of Jones County, N.C., that they could make a fortune by extracting methane gas from the trash, they agreed to let him dump 100,000 cu. yds. of rubbish into their local landfills. But when the barge with its festering cargo pulled into Morehead City, Harrelson found that the deal was off. "We told him to get the boat the hell out of North Carolina waters," said Stephen Reid of the state's solid and hazardous waste management bureau. "We have enough garbage of our own. We didn...
...bankruptcy filing is a supreme irony since Texaco would be in robust financial health if it had never tangled with Pennzoil. In the U.S. alone, Texaco has 1.7 billion bbl. of oil reserves, worth $9.6 billion, and 5.l trillion cu. ft. of natural gas with a value of $3.l billion. Before last week, Wall Street analysts had projected Texaco's profits to be more than $650 million for this year and nearly $790 million...
...Pollard's "handler"; last month Sella was named commander of one of Israel's most important air bases. Similarly, Rafi Eitan, who masterminded the Pollard spy operation, was named chairman of Israel Chemicals, the country's largest government-owned company. Washington also wants Israel to return the 360 cu. ft. of American intelligence documents that Pollard stole from the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., where he worked. The papers covered a wide range of highly sensitive subjects, from Arab nuclear facilities to Soviet surface-to-air missile capabilities...
...nation's last pristine animal ranges. The opposition: developers who seek the vast energy riches believed to lie beneath the refuge's 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. These reserves may hold as much as 5 billion to 30 billion bbl. of oil and 64.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural...