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Like most gaseous chemicals, man-made or natural, that reach the stratosphere, nitrous oxide tends to stay there. Indeed, a recent National Academy of Sciences report likened the upper atmosphere "to a city whose garbage is picked up every few years instead of daily." As long as five years after it leaves the ground, N2O may finally reach altitudes of 15 miles and above, where it is broken apart by the same ultraviolet radiation that creates ozone. The resulting fragments -- called radicals -- attack and destroy more ozone molecules. Another ozone killer is methane, a carbon-hydrogen compound produced by microbes...
...even nominate him. His twisted turn as Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Drop Dead Sadist), in the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors should have won him a supporting-actor nod. After all, he was playing a deranged Elvis impersonator who loves his mama, tortures his girlfriend and dies of a nitrous oxide overdose. It was as if Martin were living out a line from the Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid trailer: "He'll do anything in the quest for the elusive Academy Award!" Still, nada...
Lampoon: staffers blow off classes to inhale nitrous oxide, get high, drink beer and think humorous thoughts...
Community and environmental groups have protested the plant's emissions of nitrous oxide particles for many years, and it six diesel engines are now idle, pending a Department of Environmental Quality Engineering hearing later this year...
Five members and an attorney for the Mission Hill Planning Commission (MHPC) told the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the research tower's size will induce a "down-wash" effect, deflecting downward hazardous nitrous oxide exhaust from Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), two blocks away...