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With your report on pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
...bony horse. And indeed, the head of that horse materializes in the seat of the carriage. Through the train window, we see a landscape. It is not Rembrandt's dark pastoral background. It is bathed in smeary light, and its main feature is a chimney from which a plume of black smoke rises-a burned offering-toward a cross on the hill. Then one realizes that Podro, the "Jewish rider," like St. Anthony in a Bruegel, is dreaming monstrosity: riding in memory through the landscape of the Polish Holocaust...
...initial, sketchy reports began filtering in by E-mail late Saturday afternoon. First a Spanish observatory announced that it had spotted a plume of gas billowing up from the edge of Jupiter. Then a group of observers in Chile confirmed the sighting, and so did another team based at the South Pole. But although the first of the 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit the giant planet shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, had to wait for images to be beamed down from the orbiting Hubble telescope. Finally...
...visitors get more than water for their tickets ($38 per adult during the peak May-October season). Seagaia also has the Bali Hai zone, where an artificial volcano explodes every 15 min. with a thundering boom and a plume of smoke. The inside of the volcano is open for viewing -- and leads all who dare enter into the Dragon Sanctuary, where a skeletal creature is enshrined in light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks...
...used to be, but there's still a lot that says that white is more beautiful and powerful than black, that white is good and black is bad," says James P. Comer, a Yale University psychiatrist who collaborated with fellow black psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint on Raising Black Children (Plume...