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...over Institute was not MIC but a combination of methylene chloride and aldicarb oxime. At the Institute facility, aldicarb oxime is mixed with MIC to form the active ingredient for Temik, a pesticide widely used on citrus crops. Last week's scare occurred when steam accidentally entered a metal jacket surrounding a tank that stored the chemicals, causing three gaskets to blow and 500 gal of the solution to escape...
Some French police officers last week began wearing a new uniform that, like the American-style hat, was created by Pierre Balmain, the Paris fashion house. Le new look, as the French press quickly dubbed the change, replaces the old tailored jacket with a loose-fitting, blouse-style top that leaves an officer's gun holster free and visible for the first time. "It's a younger silhouette," said Frank Adler, who designed the new uniform for Balmain. Noted one policeman: "It's more practical. But the most important change is that we can reach our gun much more quickly...
...Hollywood, the director was the guy in the safari jacket and jodhpurs who ruled the set with the whip of machismo. Now the person who calls the shots is often a woman. Pictures by such directors as Amy Heckerling and Susan Seidelman are both making money and dragging a reluctant film industry into the age of equal opportunity...
...Carl Icahn, Wilde's words may be painfully true. When Icahn learned last August that he had won his bitter battle to take over Trans World Airlines, the New York financier and renowned corporate raider put on a pilot's cap and jacket and pranced around his office. "We've got ourselves an airline," he exulted...
...call the fashion police just yet. As part of its campaign to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012 (under the Kyoto Protocol), Japan has figured out a way to save energy with style: no tie, no jacket, no buttoning up. Dubbed "Cool Biz" (kuuru bizu), the new casual has officials and executives shedding their signature suits a la Clark Kent this summer and raising office thermostats 5°F, to a wilting 82.4°. Aptly dressed in casual clothes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to save the second largest importer of oil 81 million gal. each...