Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday brunch will be sarved in the Quincy courtyard, where the ceremony will take place (with a grand finale from the roof of new Quincy). Quincy House residents who don't like bagpipes might want to eat somewhere else, but Dunn plans to remove cat-, dog- and hi-finappers from the area, and even if you don't live in Quincy you might obtain some good karma. The ceremony, about an hour long, will start...
...that eats oil is the result of nearly six years of work by Ananda Chakrabarty, 41, an Indian-born microbiologist. Like most of his colleagues, Chakrabarty knew that at least four strains of the common pseudomonas bacteria contained enzymes that enabled them to break down different hydrocarbons-the major ingredients of oil. He combined these strains into what he describes as a "superbug" that can eat oil faster than any one of the four can individually...
...healthy appetite for oil. The new microbe, to which Chakrabarty gives the jawbreaking description "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading pseudomonas," can digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons involved in an oil spill. The new microbes have been tested only in the laboratory, where a pinch of microbes will eat an eyedropper of oil in a matter of days. This may seem slow, but it is between ten and 100 times faster than the four other strains of oil-eating microbes can work...
...dying. For the past two decades, the Anaconda Company's immense Berkeley pit has been slowly nibbling away one section of the hilltop city after another. Now the pit, a gaping, terraced ulcer 7,200 ft. long, a mile wide and 1,500 ft. deep, has begun to eat into the town's business district. By 1985, say some resigned residents, Butte as a city could simply cease to exist...
...champion named Big Bertha, and Comedian Dick Smothers owns a speedster named Juan Fangio, named after the retired Argentine Grand Prix driver. Smothers' wife Linda thinks she knows the reason for Juan Fangio's success: "Turtles are supposed to like lettuce, tomatoes and broccoli, but ours will eat raw hamburger." Says Jim Duffer, master of ceremonies at Brennan's, who calls the races attired in a green tuxedo: "I can't stand the little beasts. They bite...