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...Airport was forced to suspend operations, while a Pacific Coast League baseball game was "ashed out." Residents donned surgical and industrial face masks, if they could find any, and there was arun on pantyhose to protect auto carburetors. When a light drizzle began turning the ash into a pasty goo, even street sweepers and water hoses seemed to be of little help. In Washington's agricultural Cowlitz County, the ash found its way into electrical transformers, causing short circuits and blackouts. In nearby Toledo, Wash., farmers feared that continued power outages would disrupt milking and leave chick en coops...
...nodding up and down as they suck up the crude oil trapped in rock below the surface. But the Guadalupe, Calif., oil patch 50 miles northwest of Santa Barbara is no ordinary oilfield. Like a growing number of production sites in California and Texas, Guadalupe is producing a gloppy goo that looks more like asphalt than normal petroleum. This is so-called heavy oil, a once rejected energy source that oilmen now believe may help diminish the nation's dependence on imported petroleum...
Plentiful though it is, heavy oil poses problems that begin with getting it out of the ground. Because the crude is so sticky, less than 10% of it will flow to the surface by conventional pumping methods. One way to liquefy the goo is to force superheated steam into deep crude wells for as long as two weeks at pressures as high as 2,500 lbs. per sq. in. The extraction also requires huge amounts of energy. Just to heat enough steam to liquefy and then force three barrels of heavy oil up a well shaft can take as much...
...front steps of Oklahoma's state capitol, cleaning up after the hundreds of starlings and pigeons that roost on the ledges overhead. To end the problem, the state installed spikes, but the birds merely used them to anchor their nests more securely. Next the state spread a sticky goo that was supposed to give the birds hot feet. This did not work either. Then the state set out corn kernels that had been treated with a birth-control chemical. The birds still multiplied...
...toys that don't mess with your mind mess with your hair. Mork and Mindy's Ork Egg is full of "icky, gooey, yucky gucky Ork goo," which "sticks to rugs, fabric and hair." And only...