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...them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each of the 48 rotating disks that make up the plant's main processing unit. Because the bacteria possess a sticky body surface, they pick up zinc, iron and other metals in the water as it passes over the plates. They also eat the cyanide that once threatened to kill the waterway's marine life. Barely a year ago, the creek was too toxic for trout, but now they...
...effective economic force to bear on management. Thus, it Harvard had sold its stock at any point in the last 10 years, as we were repeatedly asked to do, apartheid would still remain intact. The only difference would be that the University would have lost the influence we currently possess to try to persuade companies to oppose apartheid and improve the lot of their black employees. In the last analysis, companies may leave South Africa because of the instability produced by the protests of blacks in that country. They are not likely to be moved by the transfer of shares...
Although MAC sales are now regulated, the Government can do little about the thousands of guns sold under the old classification. Declaring that the MAC "serves no purpose except to kill people," Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to possess a readily convertible firearm such as the MAC-10. The National Rifle Association considers such legislation a restriction of constitutional rights, but groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns see it as imperative. Says the coalition's executive director Michael Beard: "There's no legitimate sporting grounds...
...spread of nuclear technology over the past four decades is both an impressive and a daunting achievement. Five countries formally possess nuclear weapons (the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China); India's 1974 test explosion shows that it has at least mastered the capacity to build them. All told, about 345 commercial nuclear power reactors are in operation in 26 countries, and some 52 nations have nuclear research facilities. At least eleven nations possess facilities for the reprocessing of nuclear fuels, all yielding varying amounts of plutonium. Large enrichment facilities to turn uranium into nuclear fuel, or bomb...
...ambiguous status known as having "a bomb in the basement" is Israel. The Israelis probably developed an atomic weapon as early as 1968, in all likelihood using reprocessed plutonium from their top-secret, French-built research reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert. By 1973, Israel was believed to possess at least 13 nuclear weapons...