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...making silicon chips have a much higher risk of suffering miscarriages. Among 30 women who handled chemicals at IBM plants in New York and Vermont from 1980 to 1989, the miscarriage rate was 33%, more than double that of women who had no contact with the chemicals diethylene glycol dimethyl ether and ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate. The solvents are used to % etch away material deposited on silicon wafers and are also used in the aerospace and printing industries. IBM has alerted its workers, the silicon industry and the Environmental Protection Agency to the study findings. By law, companies cannot...
What's to be done with millions of gallons of wine spiked with antifreeze? The Austrian Ministry of Agriculture has wrestled with that question for more than a year since it seized several warehouses of white wine that vintners and dealers had illegally sweetened with diethylene glycol, an antifreeze component. Pouring the stuff into a river or out onto the ground would only poison the water table and outrage Austria's watchful environmentalists...
...which had the consistency of wet cardboard, was moved into dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Base, and has since been sprayed constantly with a cold-water mist to keep the wood from disintegrating in the air. This treatment will continue for another three years, after which polyethylene glycol, a waxy preserving agent, will be included in the mist in gradually increasing amounts. When the spray is finally turned off in the year 2001, the historic hull should be able to stand...
Concern about the contents of alcoholic beverages seemed to have some foundation last week, when the Villa Banfi, the largest U.S. wine importer, had to recall up to 400,000 cases of Riunite wine because some of it contained traces of diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze. Austrian vintners were accused last summer of using that ingredient to sweeten wine...
...crash, but the pilots' conversation supports the leading line of speculation about the causes: the snowy, 24° weather. First Officer Roger Alan Pettit, 31, the copilot, initially expressed concern about the icy conditions, as he would again and again. Twenty minutes after the 737's last glycol wash, Pettit joked: "Maybe we can taxi upside a some [727] sittin' there runnin' [and] blow off whatever [ice and snow have built up on the wings]." Several minutes later Pettit remarked, "It's been a while since we've been de-iced." He remained astonished...