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Perhaps no one, however, seems to have employed bacterial conversion better than Microbiologist James Whitlock of the Homestake Mining Co. He found a solution to the problems caused when the company dumped water laced with cyanide, which is used to leach gold out of ore, into South Dakota's Whitewood Creek. Whitlock examined waste-water samples until he found bacteria, grew them in the lab, then exposed them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each...
...marketing efforts, the firm's sales growth averaged less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after...
Playing at the NCAA individual championships in Athens, Ga., the Crimson's first doubles team pulled a stunning first-round upset by outlasting USC's first doubles tandem of Rich Leach and Tim--the fourth seeded team in the tournament and finalists in last year's NCAA event...
Some sterner souls want to deprive their bodies of wine, good food and other sensuous pleasures altogether. "The sixties generation is no longer engaged in political activity . . . People feel profoundly guilty and are directing that guilt against themselves," said Historian William Leach in a New York magazine article last year. "Running, fasting, enables them to feel whole and pure and clean again." Most people are not going that far, according to Cornell University Psychology Professor Michael Sacks, but he adds, "It has become a sign of status, as a whole, sensuous human being, to have the ability to control your...
...those who go, catharsis is common. As Lin says of the names, chronologically ordered, "Veterans can look at the wall, find a name, and in a sense put themselves back in that time." The war has left some residual pathologies that the memorial cannot leach away. One veteran killed himself on the amphitheatrical green near the wall. A second, ex-Marine Randolph Taylor, tried and failed in January. "I regret what I did," he said. "I feel like I desecrated a holy place...