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...strictly homegrown. Back in 1980, Mississippi contractor Fred Carl Jr., with some prodding from his wife, designed a range with "zero clearance." Translation: although the ovens produce a powerful 55,000 BTUs, built-in insulation allows the stove to touch kitchen cabinets on either side. Gone was the fire hazard posed by overheated professional ranges, and so too the equatorial ambient temperature well known to chefs. Viking shipped its first models in 1986; they immediately caught...
...Bush Administration seems to be downplaying the impact of the fires -- perhaps because it does not want to raise any doubts about the wisdom of the gulf war. A preliminary report issued last month by the Environmental Protection Agency admitted that particles in the smoke could be a "major hazard" but contended that there was little immediate risk to healthy Kuwaitis from noxious gases, a finding that astounded some observers. Physicist Henry Kendall, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the fires are burning with a poor 70% to 90% efficiency, guaranteeing that a stew of poisons is being...
...attainments. Among the most controversial assertions: that ancient Greece derived -- no, stole -- its culture from black Africa; that black Africans invented science and mathematics; that the Egypt of the pharaohs was a black culture; and that a racist white Establishment has systematically hidden these and other black achievements. The hazard of such courses is that they may instill less pride than resentment...
...mother could cause serious damage to the nervous system of any fetus she carried. In supporting the company two years ago, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that those who opposed Johnson had failed to show how anything less than a sweeping measure would eliminate the hazard...
Last fall those Kuwaiti officials who would hazard a guess at the optimum size of the Palestinian population put the figure at 100,000. "Now surely we can achieve that," says one minister. "We can do it either by denying ( readmission to those who left and deporting some of those who stayed -- or we can kick out some who stayed and replace them with some who left who we are fairly sure can be trusted...