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...AVANGER, Norway--American experts will arrive today to try to stop a leak from an oil well 180 miles off the Norwegian coast that has been spewing millions of gallons of crude oil into the North...
...LAKE LEAK. Plutonium from improperly handled wastes of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Broomfield, Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile...
...confidential and sharply critical report of the visiting committee to the Graduate School of Design (GSD) was widely publicized. A week later, the Board of Overseers cancelled the visiting committee's next meeting. The Overseers said that further meetings of the GSD group would be unproductive because the leak, the visiting committee's second this year, "undermined the mutual confidence and trust that must run between the School and the Visiting Committee." By postponing the upcoming April meeting, the Overseers essentially abolished the present committee as the members' terms expire before meetings resume next year. One cannot help wondering...
...fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...week the skipper of the Liberian-registered Harmonic, just arrived in New York harbor with a cargo of 25 million gal. of Libyan crude oil, put in an urgent call to the Coast Guard. Possibly the result of heavy storms encountered at sea, the ship had sprung a small leak, spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last. On Dec. 15, when the Liberian-registered Argo Merchant...