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...technology has removed many of the pollutants that escaped from chimneys in the 1960s and 1970s. So it is not surprising that a new generation of incinerators is developing. But NIMBY operates here too: some Minneapolis residents have mounted strong protests against a burner under construction near the downtown area. Like anti-landfill sentiment, opposition to incinerators has a reasoned basis. Environmentalist Barry Commoner insists that incinerators actually synthesize dioxin, a highly poisonous substance. True, scrubbers and other filters can eliminate dioxin from smoke, but not its concentrated form in the ash residue, causing a prickly problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Garbage, Garbage, Everywhere | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Even if Transrapid is not awarded the casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Floating Trains: What a Way to Go! | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...some in this city of the Deep South, receiving is far more important than purchasing. In Atlanta, civic leaders cleaned up the downtown, evicting the homeless. Not New Orleans...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Grand Old Party Parties | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

After running six blocks to my house, I came in two pitches before Bucky Dent took Mike Torrez downtown. Soon, the Yanks were the American League East champs...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Bronx Yankee in King Roger's Court | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...need to take an Eastern shuttle back to New York. I have to get back on a Lexington Avenue IRT headed downtown and get off at the 161st St. stop. I have to go back to the box seats behind first base, watch Mattingly turn over a double play and then watch him hit the upper deck in the bottom of the ninth...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Bronx Yankee in King Roger's Court | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

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