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When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as "a white elephant...
...Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron, to achieve higher energies. Instead of sending nuclear bullets, protons, barreling into a fixed target, the four-mile circular atomic race track was redesigned so that two sets of bullets-protons and their antimatter opposites, antiprotons-raced around it in opposite directions. At two junctures their paths intersected, producing collisions of great violence...
From the three downtown Tuscaloosa churches, where 1,500 listened to the simple 18-min. service, it is 51 miles to Birmingham, where Bryant was buried. On the cold Friday morning, Alabamans lined the first mile of the route four deep, and all of the way in ones and twos. When the white hearse, followed by hundreds of cars, came to the hospital where Bryant had died, scrub-suited surgeons stepped outside with masks dangling. The cortege passed the university where Bryant had played his college football and where he coached 25 of his 38 head-coaching seasons, winning...
...room, wider seats and the 50% increase in overhead storage space. The carriers, which now include TWA, American and Delta, like the new plane's low operating costs. Narrower than the mammoth 747, the 767 carries 210 passengers and is versatile enough to be used for 1,000-mile flights, as well as transcontinental routes. Thanks to new engines and wings, and the use of lighter composite materials, United says that the 767 is 30% to 54% more fuel efficient than the older planes it replaces. Boeing claims that airlines can save up to $2.5 million annually for every...
...efforts are the largest CO2 projects ever. In one, Exxon Corp. and Atlantic Richfield Co. are the major investors in a $350 million, 405-mile underground line that is to begin piping the gas this spring. In the second, Shell Oil Co. and Mobil Oil Corp. are building a 500-mile system that will cost a total of about $1.2 billion. That system, in which Continental Resources Co. also has an interest, is to be finished in the third quarter of next year. The Shell-Mobil project alone could coax out an extra 280 million bbl. and boost output...