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...detect increases in sulfur-dioxide emissions, indicating that magma has reached the surface. In addition, the physical swelling of mountain slopes, well documented at Mount St. Helens, is a sign of explosive potential. Laser-based devices can pick up minute bulges that are about the width of a nickel and still invisible to the naked eye. In Japan researchers have set up video cameras to monitor the shape and color of fumes at 19 of the country's most worrisome volcanoes...
...Europe, Moscow's deals with Havana are now on a hard- currency basis at prevailing world prices. Under a 1991 agreement worth $3.8 billion, the Soviet Union is to deliver 70 million bbl. of oil to Cuba and, in exchange, receive 4 million tons of sugar, plus citrus fruit, nickel and medical supplies...
Stanford's 74% overhead rate was among the highest in the country (it was recently slashed to 70%), in part because the school was unusually aggressive about recouping every nickel it could. "I expect our controllers to do their best on behalf of the university," says Stanford President Donald Kennedy. Some would argue, however, that Stanford's controllers were overly zealous in their quest for money. Defense Department auditors say the university has been so uncooperative in the investigation that they threatened last week to turn the matter over to the Justice Department...
...apparently would like, most consumers can live with that, and business had been forecasting such a price for 1991 before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last summer. Gasoline prices are lower than before the invasion, if the effect of a new nickel-per-gal. federal tax is discounted. Cheaper jet fuel is welcome news for the nation's tortured airline industry...
...just making up for not hiking prices all the way during last fall's crude run-up. Even so, the average price of a gallon of unleaded is down to $1.18, only 10 cents higher than the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- and half that difference is from a nickel-a-gallon federal tax imposed in December...