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...standards, the news that began trickling out of Russia last week was appalling. A ruptured pipeline in the northwestern Komi republic has dumped a huge amount of oil onto the Arctic landscape, contaminating wetlands and fouling waterways. An eyewitness reported that on one river the crude has formed a noxious slick measuring six to seven miles long, 14 yards wide and a yard deep. The spill's total volume, say U.S. Department of Energy officials, could be as much as 2 million bbl., some eight times the amount dumped in Alaska by the Exxon Valdez...
...anonymous complaint, filed in May, reported inadequate ventilation systems and said noxious fumes from students' projects were reaching employees' offices...
...volcano that included a 3-D survey of the hellish terrain and an analysis of gases issuing from belching vents. Among the significant results: the first maps of the crater's surface, normally hidden by outcroppings and haze. Dante also discovered scant sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the noxious air, implying that the volcano, which erupted in 1992, will probably stay quiet for a while...
...intensified the ordinary disruption ofbeing that age, many items over," remembers DavidI. Bruck '70, a protester and then-editorial chairof The Crimson. "The images of the war hung in theair like a noxious...
...yourself. And we thought that the Advo was just a pompous gas-bag inflated with the noxious byproducts of effete overeducation. But the Arbiter Elegentiae has spoken and it has left the dullard and unwashed Harvardian masses to listen and obey...