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...article in Thursday's Boston Herald, anonymous sources said they were certain that someone had introduced the substance, which was described as a liquid, resin-based adhesive, into the helicopter's fuel tank...
President Reagan got hoots when he once claimed that trees cause air pollution, but intrepid University of Florida researchers have now confirmed that the Gipper was onto something. A new study of terpenes, a component of the gooey resin in pine tree sap, shows that at least some trees actually do contribute to pollution by reacting with other pollutants and sunlight to produce ozone. While this is not yet cause for alarm, they add, the situation could get worse as temperatures rise because of the "greenhouse effect...
...trouble of having to clean up? Patronize the arts--buy a pair of paper-mache penguins for $505 each, or a 4-foot tall paper mache black panther from Mexico, $1,250 from Baak, 35a Brattle Street. Alternately, from Boston artist Doug Finch, a four-legged industrial polymer resin "Ooloo" pitcher ($750) from Artsmart, in the Shops by Harvard Yard. These are popular items, says the store manager: Victorian advertising heavy paper drums, which can be used as tables, (buy three to seven of them with $1,000), or false hide-inside leather-bound books...
...women's bathrooms, asbestos-containingfloor tile and mastic, a resin-like cement oftenused with such tiles, shows heavy damage. Sometiles are cracked and buckling, others are dustyand flaking...
Scientists have extracted tiny fragments of DNA from a weevil that lived at least 120 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Like the dino-blood-carrying insect in the new movie Jurassic Park, the weevil was trapped and preserved in tree resin that hardened into amber. The weevil will not be cloned, however...