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CONVERTING IT. Solid coal cannot power jetliners or cars, and the U.S. depends on liquid and gaseous fuels for two-thirds of its energy. Thus the key to coal's future is whether it can be converted into either synthetic oil or natural gas. It can be, but economical processes are yet to come...
...that the sun's heat might have baked the comet's exterior into a kind of "sticky glue" that prevented some of the cometary dust and gas from boiling off. University of Arizona Astronomer Elizabeth Roemer, for one, found this theory improbable. Comets, she explained, are too gaseous and fragile to develop such a crust. Other astronomers suggested that Kohoutek, a "virgin" comet making its first approach to the inner part of the solar system and never before exposed to the warmth of the sun, had flared up briefly when its more volatile materials boiled...
...ingredient in the process is not chlorine, which purifies most of the U.S. water supply, but a gas called ozone -a form of oxygen with three (rather than the more common two) atoms in its molecular structure. Ozone is formed when ordinary gaseous oxygen is exposed to electrical discharges or ultraviolet radiation; it has a characteristic acrid odor noticeable after electrical storms and in the vicinity of ultraviolet lamps. In large concentrations, it is dangerous to breathe because it oxidizes, or burns, healthy tissue. Bubbled through water, it attacks and oxidizes polio and other harmful viruses, and completely eliminates foul...
Unfortunately for Producer-Reporter John Sharnik, this story within the story did not amount to much more than a few gaseous brushes between cops and kids-stuff that Executive Producer Robert Wussler, who called most of the shots in Central Control during the convention, chose sensibly to ignore. Thus, through no fault of its creators. CBS Reports: Anatomy of a News Story, which is being aired this week, does not have quite strong enough a spine. On the other hand, the demonstrators' lack of emotional intrusiveness does allow the reporters-and the viewer-to concentrate on how raw information...
...place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks, hisses, wheezes, gurglings and belches. All this gaseous activity fluctuated with the severity of the cold outside. On a bad day, it reaches to a furious pitch. This is not to say that everyone is, or would be, bothered by these arpeggios of steam in the pipes. Clearly not. But for those, like me, who in the pursuit...