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...department store in Houston is marketing a "home dome" that completely encloses houses and grounds in vinyl. Beneath the dome, which costs $7.50 per square foot, 300 to 1,000 tons of electric air conditioning will maintain an Astrodomic 72° in summer, while the structure seals out smog and soot. For less well-heeled customers, Sakowitz offers a cheaper escape from the noxious fumes: a sequined gas mask...
...year pilot with 30 years of flying experience, Guthrie says that the dumped fuel either falls on the runway, where it can become a "greasy and slippery" hazard for other aircraft, or else it contributes to airport smog that is "often so thick you can't see the earth horizon." One of Guthrie's friends crashed in such murk...
Thriving on Smog. How could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
...life in the clouds is as widespread as Parker suspects, biologists will have whole new ecological possibilities to explore. Clouds may well spread disease, for example, by harboring harmful viruses or bacteria. On the other hand, organisms that thrive on the ingredients of smog and smoke could help in the fight against air pollution. Introduced into clouds, they would feed on the undesirable gases and particles, thus converting pollution into harmless cloud creatures...
...incident showed the animosity that surrounds the strike like a cloud of smog. The stoppage is now in its sixth week, and both sides agree that local issues must be settled before work can resume. As of last week only about 25% of some 39,000 local demands had been resolved, and they were the least difficult ones. An optimist in Detroit nowadays is someone who still expects the G.M. workers to return well before Christmas; the pessimists predict that the walkout will last until early next year...