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...felt hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles beyond Kuwait's borders. Researchers still have little information about the size of the giant black cloud of oil, gases, soot and smoke being pumped into the atmosphere hour after hour, day after day. But they now fear that what happens to this noxious mass during the next few weeks may affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people...
...does not want to raise any doubts about the wisdom of the gulf war. A preliminary report issued last month by the Environmental Protection Agency admitted that particles in the smoke could be a "major hazard" but contended that there was little immediate risk to healthy Kuwaitis from noxious gases, a finding that astounded some observers. Physicist Henry Kendall, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the fires are burning with a poor 70% to 90% efficiency, guaranteeing that a stew of poisons is being shot into the atmosphere...
...carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the smog has made the winter of 1991 the most toxic in Mexico City history, triggering a 16% to 20% jump in the incidence of respiratory infections, nosebleeds and emphysema. Since September, the city has enjoyed only six days in which noxious gases did not exceed danger levels. "The atmosphere has no time to recuperate," says Homero Aridjis, president of the Group of One Hundred, an environmental organization. "We have reached a chronic situation...
...road. It doesn't have a gas tank. It uses little oil. And it gets 120 miles with each fill-up. Miles ahead of its time, the Impact is an electric car that runs on 32 10-volt batteries. Since it burns no fuel, no tail pipes emit noxious fumes into the atmosphere. Though the car is experimental, GM last week announced it would produce it in a plant that can turn out 25,000 autos a year, signaling the company's most ambitious venture yet in electric vehicles...
...duster style or dropping them in bombs. These are the means by which Saddam gassed his own Kurdish minority in 1988. But any plane that Saddam would send up against the allies would probably get shot down in short order. Thus, the Iraqis are more likely to deliver their noxious poisons using artillery shells, missiles and rockets. It would take a terrific barrage of any of these to soak enemy troops thoroughly, and once the blasting started, allied bombers would furiously attack the culprits. "Once they're out in the open," says an American pilot, "they're dead meat...