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...began, appropriately, in the afterglow of an Optimist club meeting in Lafayette, N.Y., on a Thursday night in the winter of 1972. Over a couple of beers, Doug Keller was telling fellow Optimist Clay Smith about an experiment one of his Syracuse University graduate students was doing. As part of Keller's graduate class in materials science, the student was trying out various chemicals to see if there was some agent that would allow drills to penetrate coal more easily. When he applied ammonia, explained Keller, the raw coal broke down into fine particles, separating the purer hydrocarbons from rock...
There was real promise here, Keller said. Ash and sulfur are the principal pollutants in coal. Without them, the remaining fuel would burn clean, unlike the dirty coal used by many big utility plants in the U.S. If the process Keller was describing could be duplicated on a mass scale, it would provide an attractive alternative...
Lederer relates a cornucopia of anecdotes about literary figures. Stories about Helen Keller who was freed from her "dark, silent prison" and taught to speak, read and write, or George Orwell, who laid down six of the most important ground rules of the writer's art, instill the work with human interest...
William Craig, a former Shawmut National Corporation executive, leads an investor group that seeks control of three failing savings banks: Dartmouth Savings Bank, New Hampshire Savings Bank and Numerica Savings Bank. Dartmouth Savings chief executive Robert Keller is part of that group, according to The Globe...
...contends that "not all 2.3 million party members were villains." If Germany opts to deal with them only through Ausgrenzung, he says, "we will never have a peaceful unification." Krenz is a victim of that policy, although some might argue that he had it coming. Both he and Keller fear that the shunning -- combined with hardships caused by the collapse of the socialist economy -- could encourage a popular tide of nostalgia for the good old, bad old days. Politically, of course, there is no going back. But the mood of disenchantment could leave an unpleasant pall over the ongoing struggle...