Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the panel, 64 million gallons of wastes kept in 170 tanks for up to 40 years show signs of chemical instability. The panel reported that heat within some of the tanks could become great enough to ignite a spontaneous chemical explosion or a spark could set off the combustible mixture...
...Moreover, they argue, the drilling rigs, power plants, transmission lines and roads in the plan will harm or destroy tracts of the precious Wao Kele O Puna rain forest. Even native Hawaiian religious groups oppose the scheme, claiming that it will rob the volcano-dwelling goddess Pele of body heat...
...tanker makes oil spills an ever present danger. As an alternative energy source, geothermal generation is a proven technology. It supplies about 5% of California's electricity and provides power in two other states and about 20 foreign countries as well. Advocates admit that tapping the earth's heat in this fashion will also bring up noxious hydrogen sulfide and sulfur-dioxide gases, but they argue that the Kilauea volcano, just a few miles away, spews out far more of the very same gases...
...fall for the Hammer are hard to find. Public Enemy's Chuck D is strongly in his corner, but Hammer has been called out by the rap press ("cheesy, pop-oriented production") and torched by fellow rappers from Digital Underground to M.C. Serch and 3rd Bass, who kept the heat high in the pointedly titled Gas Face. Hammer handles such criticism with equanimity. "Rather than cross over ((into the pop market)), let's say that I expanded," he suggests. "My music caught on because the people are ready...
...provincial capital of Cabanatuan, rescue workers used handkerchiefs to ward off the stench of decaying bodies as they worked in the sweltering heat to peel away the remains of a six-story school building. "It happened so fast," said Abelaida Belino, a school principal who was in her office when the quake hit. "I had to stumble my way out. But I'm very lucky. I feel like I've been given a new life...