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...territory in the Midwest through a 200-mile pipeline to be built across southern California and existing natural gas lines running through Texas. But unloading at Long Beach, protests Chairman A. Thomas Quinn of California's powerful air resources board, could daily release more than 50 tons of hydrocarbon vapors into the air and "severely aggravate" pollution in the Los Angeles area...
...engines, separate from its chute and approach the surface at less than 6 m.p.h. So that the landing site will be disturbed as little as possible, each of the braking rockets will fire through a showerhead arrangement of 18 nozzles to diffuse the blast. The rocket fuel is also hydrocarbon-free to avoid confusing Viking's life-seeking instruments. When the first Viking foot pad touches Martian soil, it will trip a sensor that shuts off the engines. Eighteen minutes later controllers will know, by signals sent from the lander, if a successful touchdown has been made...
...hotel balcony view enjoyed more than just a road race. The two-hour Grand Prix was the climax of a three-day combustible fiesta, and TIME Correspondent David DeVoss was among the participants. Explained former Maserati Racer Carroll Shelby as he blissfully sniffed a passing cloud of hydrocarbon: "This is a spectacle...
...Your story on Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty's new oil-eating bug [Sept. 22], the "multiplasmid hydrocarbon-degrading pseudomonas," hailed the bug as a major advance in battling oil spills...
...several experiments -Chakrabarty discovered that irradiating the host organisms with ultraviolet light after plasmid transfer induced a genetic cross-linking that fixed the new genes in place and produced stable bacteria with a healthy appetite for oil. The new microbe, to which Chakrabarty gives the jawbreaking description "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading pseudomonas," can digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons involved in an oil spill. The new microbes have been tested only in the laboratory, where a pinch of microbes will eat an eyedropper of oil in a matter of days. This may seem slow, but it is between...