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...thing the bill avoided was any strong action to deal with the nation's excessive appetite for oil. Besides avoiding new auto standards, it neither raises gasoline taxes nor forces oil companies to pay for expanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce reliance on foreign oil. That made environmentalists cringe, but also made the House and Senate energy bills compatible; the final legislation could become law by summer...
Venezuela is a more complicated case. It is one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. It is also, not coincidentally, one of the most prosperous nations in the region. While Peru is cursed with the deadliest of exports, cocaine, Venezuela is blessed with vast petroleum reserves...
Such accidents are sometimes caused by an industrial plant's indiscriminate dumping of flammable waste products into the sewage system. Investigators in Guadalajara quickly focused on two possible culprits: a cooking-oil factory and a state-run petroleum facility...
...ABOUT PLASTIC IS THAT IT IS cheap and it lasts forever. Unfortunately, as an inventory of any trash heap reveals, those are also its bad qualities. Scientists have spent more than a decade developing biodegradable polymers, but so far they have proved 10 times as expensive to produce as petroleum-based versions. Last week researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., announced that for the first time, they have coaxed the production of a biodegradable plastic from a very inexpensive source: green plants...
...Salt Lake City has become a high-tech center as well, computer-aided translation comes naturally to many local workers. "It is a unique combination: a linguistically and culturally conscious society that is also computer literate," says ALPNET president Thomas Seal. Among the company's clients: Apple Computer, British Petroleum, NATO and Siemens. The U.S. Army recently called on ALPNET to translate 32,000 pages of information on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle into Arabic for the Saudi military...