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Diesel may not be the way to go. Given the high aromatic content of diesel fuel and its propensity for creating particulates, chemical intuition suggests that it would be surprising if diesel exhaust did not contain appreciable amounts of first-rate carcinogens. As a professor of physical chemistry, I for one would like to see the medical studies precede deployment this time...
...condominiums, currently has no problems with erosion. But just a mile up the road, where much of the new development is taking place, the island is getting smaller and smaller. In the past century, according to the Texas bureau of economic geology, the land disappeared at an average rate of 12 ft. a year...
...accident could hardly have occurred at a worse time. The U.S. now imports almost half of the oil it consumes, and the OPEC nations continued last week to sting the industrialized world with price increases, thus adding to the nation's already soaring inflation rate. The U.S. had been counting on nuclear energy to achieve a greater degree of energy independence, but the Three Mile Island accident helped demonstrate that there is no easy path to self-sufficiency. The use of each kind of energy has its own particular problems or risks. Says David Rosenbaum, a consultant...
...Three Mile Island plant, had pressed Unit 2 into regular service last Dec. 30. By meeting the year-end deadline, the utility qualified for $17 million to $28 million in 1978 tax investment credits, plus $20 million in depreciation deductions. It also got approval for a $49 million rate increase. "There was no question that there was strong incentive for the company to get that plant on line fast," contended David Barasch, an attorney for Pennsylvania's state Consumer Advocate office...
...striking back at the West, in the sense of people trying to reclaim a very greatly damaged sense of selfesteem. They feel that for the past 150 years the West has totally overpowered them culturally, and in the process their own institutions and way of life have become second rate." Says John Duke Anthony, a Middle East expert in Washington: "We are witnessing a reformation. Within the Islamic world, there is a sense that changes can be made so as to allow Islamic nations to adapt to the pressures of the latter part of this century...