Word: pittsburgh
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Pollution sensors are not unique to The Netherlands. Some U.S. cities, such as New York, have tried various types since 1967. IBM is currently working on a 103-sensor network for Pennsylvania's Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). None of these systems, however, can pinpoint the source of existing pollution...
Four students-two men and two women-were killed by the volley. They were identified as Jeffrey Miller, 20, of Plainview, N. Y.; Allison Krause, 19, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sandy Lee Scheuer, 20, of Youngstown, Ohio; and William Schroeder, 19, of Lorain, Ohio...
...sees as mere fetish mongering. He wants to change art into a system of total environments, which can be enjoyed but never possessed-as a sunset is unpossessed. "I want to make art as monumental as nature," he says. His sculptures are meant to exist on equal terms with Pittsburgh's buildings, bridges and night...
Piene's art hooks into a worldwide concern for ecology, for redesigning man's physical consciousness. But he considers his show in Pittsburgh the merest sketch for future projects. These include a mile-long arch of hydrogen-filled balloon flown over the sea, to be exploded at dusk by an electric spark; vast towers of flame; and a scheme to incorporate the sun into art by turning it black, red or blue with optical "veils" hung between it and the earth. What will the ecologists make of that...
Horty, 41, now directs one of the most ambitious efforts yet undertaken to computerize the nation's laws. During the past three years, the company that Horty organized-Aspen Systems Corp. of Pittsburgh-has fed into its memory banks the statutes of all 50 states, the U.S. Code and 14 volumes of U.S. Supreme Court decisions...