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...night of Dec. 2-3, 1984, Bhopal suffered one of the worst industrial accidents of modern times. On the edge of town stood a seven-hectare pesticide plant owned by the U.S. company Union Carbide. Around midnight, water passed through a safety valve that had been deactivated and poured into a 13-meter steel tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC). The water caused a superheated reaction, turning the MIC into a deadly gas; the tank ruptured, breaking clean through its concrete housing; and 27 tons of MIC was released into the gentle southerly breeze that made kite-flying Bhopal's favorite...
...growing conviction that he was being sidelined by his brother, conflict was exacerbated by turf wars. An Anil supporter says that Reliance Energy, the company headed by Anil, was promised that by 2006 it would receive natural gas from Reliance Industries that it needed to run a new power plant; this source says the promised delivery of gas was then delayed to 2008. A Reliance spokesman close to Mukesh says that the supply of gas to Reliance Energy merely ran into procedural delays...
Imagine flanking your home stereo with birds of paradise rather than a pair of speakers. The Ka-on flower speaker, housed in a vase, below, or pot, uses real plant parts--stems to conduct sound waves, leaves and flowers to serve as cones--to fill a 16-ft. radius with music. Its audio quality is closer to that of a vinyl record than a CD, but for some audiophiles, that's a good thing...
MAJOR PROJECTS: The controversial Three Gorges Dam will be the biggest power plant in the world when it is completed in 2009. Another major hydroelectric project, the Longtan hydropower station on the Pearl River, is scheduled for completion...
...according to Schindel, whether he’d even get that chance this season was up in the air as recently as training camp. Though he’d recovered from a broken plant leg as a high school sophomore and built up his strength, the first week of pre-season drills saw him locked in a battle with one of his classmates for first-string time...