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...Mount Pico Blanco near Big Sur contains 600 million tons of limestone, one of the largest deposits in the U.S. The Granite Rock Co. wants to quarry the scenic mountain, which is on federal land, while the California coastal commission wants to protect it. Last week the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 for the coastal commission, upholding the right of states to enforce environmental requirements even on federal property. California can require the mining company obtain a state permit, even though it had received a federal go- ahead. Fully 19 states, along with the National Governors' Association, had filed...
...shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most expensive urine in the neighborhood...
...Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa look absolutely puny in comparison," she declares. "The explosive death of a star is truly worthy...
...below ground, in a salt mine under Lake Erie, in the Kamioka lead and zinc mine in Japan, in the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking Italy and France, and in another tunnel under Mount Elbrus in the Soviet Union, scientists carefully examined data from computer printouts. They were hoping that some of the ethereal particles called neutrinos, predicted by theory to be produced during a supernova, had penetrated the earth, leaving their trail in huge liquid- filled neutrino detectors. Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, of the University of Texas in Austin, summarized the activity while addressing a hastily convened meeting of astronomers...
Both the Mont Blanc and Mount Elbrus detectors also picked up neutrino bursts at the crucial time, but scientists are still puzzling over another burst recorded at Mont Blanc some 4 1/2 hours earlier. They will examine the data further this week at a meeting in Wisconsin. In any case, Bahcall is ecstatic. "I think this is almost surrealistic," he says. "It's hard to believe I'm actually awake." Agrees University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "There have been smoking guns, but we've never seen the act committed before...