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...then there was the Freon. About the time the Beverly plant was begun in 1979, scientists were speculating that chlorofluorocarbons were a significant depletor of the earth's ozone layer. In earlier, smaller facilities, Otisca had been able to recover all but 0.1% of the Freon, motivated to do so by the sheer economics of recycling the expensive chemical. But in the big plant in Beverly, it was losing as much as 5%. Smith discovered that he had installed the wrong kind of compressor to recover the Freon, then argued with AEP over how to fix it. "I tried...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administration is one bureaucratic layer closer to the undergraduate, but don't expect to spend too many Thursday sipping tea with the denizens of University Hall's top floors...
...rule, not the exception. But the highs and lows and wets and drys over the past two years have been so extreme that anxious questions are arising. Could these outbursts of wacky weather be related to those fires from the gulf war? That hole in the ozone layer? The global warming trend that environmentalists have been predicting for so many years...
...that for the first time some of the influences that shape our weather are man-made. Experts say it could be 20 or 30 years before they know for certain what effect the buildup of greenhouse gases, the destruction of ancient forests or the depletion of the ozone layer have had. Policymakers looking for excuses not to halt those trends will always be able to point to scientific uncertainty. As Schneider puts it, "We're insulting the system at a faster rate than we can understand." The risk is that by the time we understand what is happening...
...original sandwich favorite spread with a layer of caviar instead of jelly...