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With your report on pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
...Southern Baptists suddenly moving to put the disgraceful past behind them? Some scholars believe the church has reached a point of diminishing returns in attempting to lure more white converts. But so long as the convention, founded in 1845 by die- hard defenders of slavery, clung to its noxious racial theology, it would be hard to evangelize among African Americans, who currently account for about 500,000 of the church's 15.5 million members. "This is very much connected to the Southern Baptists' attempts to reach out to blacks, who share with them a very strong belief in Fundamentalism," says...
JOHANNESBURG: Insect Invasion They hiss, bare their teeth and squirt a noxious black goop. The South African rainy season has brought an influx of so-called Parktown Prawns. Not really crustaceans, the brawny, pink, 10-cm- long king crickets are infesting the gardens of affluent suburbs in ever increasing numbers. Some residents insist they are pollution-induced mutants; others tell of ferocious guard dogs driven off by the bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there...
Unusually smoggy Chicago weather set off thousands of newly-required home carbon monoxide detectors today, forcing city officials to plead for calm. The Fire Department responded to at least 2,000 calls in the past 24 hours from frightened residents who worried the alarms signaled high levels of the noxious, odorless gas. But forecasters attributed the phenomena to a "temperature inversion" that trapped several days' worth of smog in the area. Three months ago, Chicago became the first major city to require the devices. But today, fire officials criticized one of the largest manufacturers, First Alert Inc of suburban Aurora...
...workmen scrambled last week to apply a glistening coat of white paint to the outside of police headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince, a tax official standing on a nearby street corner summed up the skepticism that hangs over Haiti like a noxious bouquet. "It will take more than white paint to change this country," he said. "It's all just dressing on the cake...