Word: domes
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...drilling around a dome near Beaumont, Texas, produced a gusher of unprecedented size. It was called Spindletop and gave birth to the modern petroleum industry. Since then, salt domes in the Gulf States have helped point the way to more than 6 billion...
...proposal is highly controversial, and residents of dome areas are already up in arms. In Louisiana, a group calling itself Citizens Against Radioactive Storage has been formed. During the last session of Congress, Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston introduced a bill that would have blocked the use of salt domes by calling for storage in shallow beds, where, in case of leakage, the material would be more easily retrievable. Vows Louisiana Governor David Treen: "Unless it could be demonstrated that storing nuclear waste in salt domes is absolutely safe, I would oppose...
Lately, popular fears have been stirred by a rash of mishaps involving salt domes. Last June methane gas exploded at a salt mine on Belle Isle, La., killing three miners and injuring 17 others. In November an oil-drilling rig accidentally punctured a salt-mine shaft under Jefferson Island, La., sending much of a 1.5-sq.-mi. lake gurgling down into the dome. The most frightening accidents have involved still another use of salt domes: as cheap, convenient storage tanks for crude-oil and natural-gas products. Last fall hundreds of people had to flee Mont Belvieu, Texas...
Eric Klaussen should not be forced to live on the horizontal plane. The captain of the ski team is more comfortable on the inclines, whether it be climbing El Capitan or Yosemite's Half Dome, skiing Squaw Valley or Tuckerman's ravine, or even hurtling down the Rockies on a skateboard...
...same characteristic which, in part, inspired Mead's exploration of other cultures helped bring about a vaccine for polio and the invention of the geodesic dome. Salk developed the polio vaccine after he challenged the wisdom fed to him in medical school that only living viruses could be used to vaccinate against viral diseases. Fuller developed the geodesic dome after he discarded the square and turned to the triangle as the most stable figure in nature. His domes, built from a collection of triangles, enclose, per pound of material, 30 times the unobstructed interior space of any known alternative clear...