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...emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions of cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Clearing the Air | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...determined to be sure this effrontery does not go unpunished that she has forgotten the book altogether. Instead, like the college professor who fiddles endlessly with his pipe before explaining why you are flunking his course, Hepburn decides to tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...summer session will not be all fun andgame, Queen said. In addition to class work, somestudents will have to deal with the extensive Yardrenovation work that will continue all summer. Thedrilling, digging and pipe installation will beginevery morning at approximately 7:30 a.m., Queensaid...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: 5000 Enroll Today | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...time is precious inside the ivy gates, and Harvard is generous with her distractions. Reading every book you buy--or even all of your required texts--is probably a pipe dream...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bookstores Draw Bargain-Hunters And Browsers to Harvard Square | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

Judi Bari, a member of the radical group Earth First!, is still hurting from the explosion in 1990 of a pipe bomb in her Subaru station wagon. The Oakland blast left her with a paralyzed right foot and a dislocated spine. Earth First! is known for tactics that sometimes endanger the safety of loggers, though Bari insists that she is against violence. Authorities arrested her on suspicion that she knowingly transported the bomb, but no charges were brought. Bari claims that officials have failed to investigate the case seriously, and has filed a civil rights suit against the Oakland police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Species No, not owls or elephants. Humans who fight to save the planet are putting their lives on the line. | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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