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Thanks to emission-control equipment installed on new autos since 1975, the air over U.S. cities is cleaner than it was ten years ago. Even so, millions of cars continue to spew out microscopic particles of a toxic pollutant: lead. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency told refiners that by next January they must eliminate 90% of the lead they put in leaded gasoline. The EPA said it is proposing a ban on all such fuel...
...opportunity to buy automobiles, homes and furniture, take vacations and send their children to universities. Even without skyrocketing interest rates and a federal deficit out of control, low-paying hospital, fast-food and custodial jobs will hardly put bread on the table. The Remarkable Job Machine will backfire and spew out all the miseries of poverty for America. Richard T. Baurmann Humble, Texas
...ZapMail will not require customers to use computer keyboards to send messages. Instead, couriers will pick up and rush material to a Federal Express office, where clerks will feed it into a document scanner for transmission over land lines. At the receiving Federal Express office, a laser printer will spew out copies for couriers to deliver immediately. The firm even vows to give full refunds if documents are late...
...like Thomas Wolfe, writes like William Faulkner and carries around with him in a cardboard box the burden of his dreams: a thousand-page manuscript and a bottle of booze. It is hard to say whether the other students (Peggity Price, Jane Connell) are more appalled by the erotic spew of language in Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers of age, sex and class to acknowledge the right of great gifts to wrap themselves in socially unappetizing forms. What one can say is that her act of commitment to another committed writer...
Most of the other characters--a brightly-dressed flutter of engaged, soon-to-be-engaged, and married couples--alternate between stiffness and competence, depending on how much artificial language their characters spew out. The ones intended to be irritating (Curt Raffi and Jennifer Burton) achieve a bit more success in such instances than the ones who are merely sweet (David Angel and Laurence Bouvard), but this, too, is only partly blameable on the actors. Children in bright dresses, tuneful incidental music by Brooks Whitehouse, and lederhosen all around contribute to the impression of a light and pleasant entertainment, the "comedy...