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...week Guthrie's 3,700 fellow Eastern pilots intimated that they, too, will drain holding tanks on the ground unless Guthrie gets his wings back. Meanwhile, Eastern announced that it had asked manufacturers to try to design a quieter, almost pollution-free engine in which excess fuel would seep back into the regular fuel tanks...
...Orlando's water supply, since the site is atop porous soil that lets rainwater into Florida's vital aquifer. That underground layer of limestone stores much of the state's annual 57 inches of rainfall. Any significant damage to the aquifer could let salt water seep in from the sea and contaminate Florida's lush farm land...
...looks something like a funland bump car with a big fan on the back. It is powered by two engines-"one for up," in the words of MHV's promotional brochure, "and one for over." The first inflates Spectra's black vinyl skirts and forces air to seep out from under them, providing a cushion that suspends the craft above the surface; the second turns a propeller that thrusts the vehicle forward. Only 10 ft. long and 6 ft. wide, Spectra I weighs 450 Ibs. and costs between $1,595 and $1,995, depending on engine size...
WILLIAMS' hard. compact style wrings every ounce of meaning from his words. His ability to flesh out characters and scenes is a pleasure to observe: he has an exciting way of making his characters come alive-not jump but flow off the pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...
...continues to erode its banks, growing ever larger over the years. The permafrost also makes waste disposal difficult. In their North Slope operations to date, oil companies have bulldozed shallow lagoons into which they have dumped garbage and sewage. If they continue this practice, increasing amounts of wastes will seep through the spongy tundra and contaminate the whole water table...