Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Corporate museums are gaining in popularity, in part because many companies have closed down their plant tours to protect secrets and to avoid liability for visitors who might be injured. Among the corporate shrines currently open are the Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie Museum and the Tupperware Visitors' Center and Museum in Orlando...
...South Side of Chicago, it will lead you to a dilapidated housing project built atop a former landfill whose fetid odors still rise from the basements after more than 60 years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...
Typical is the dilemma of California's Campo tribe of Mission Indians, whose land lies 68 miles east of San Diego. Leaders of the community of 250 people are negotiating with a waste-disposal company to build a landfill and recycling plant that would be fed up to 3,000 tons of garbage a day from San Diego County. This would be a boon for the county, which is running out of landfill. For the Indians, the project would bring jobs and "millions" in income, says tribal EPA chairman Michael Connelly-Misquish...
...plan's proponents point out that only 3.2 of the forest's 10,930 hectares (eight of 27,000 acres) have been bulldozed so far, in preparation for installing a 25-MW, 12-well plant (only one well has been drilled). Even the most grandiose plan, which would generate 500 MW of electricity, would require only 142 hectares (350 acres). And while that would necessarily destroy some native plants and animals, at least one team of scientists from the University of Hawaii has concluded that Wao Kele O Puna has long since ceased to be pristine. Invaded by pigs, cats...
...investigation committee said in a one-page statement that it found the millimeter error while testing a null corrector on Wednesday at the Hughes Danbury Optical Systems plant in Danbury, Conn., where the mirrors were made...