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...like that, the corridor between Washington and Boston looks like a great oil spill at sea. By contrast, Idaho, because of its configuration and lack of residents, looks like an alabaster chimney with only a few smudges. Idaho, the popular saying goes, "is what America...
...still occur. Since 1972, the Chemical Manufacturers Association has maintained CHEMTREC, the chemical transportation emergency response center, to help local authorities. CHEMTREC staffs a round-the-clock 800-number hotline. Police and fire officials can call to find out what kind of chemical they are dealing with in a spill, and what to do about it. CHEMTREC'S files contain information on 60,000 substances. Its communications lines can link fire fighters and company experts in transcontinental conference calls. For spills of unusually hazardous materials, such as cyanide, chlorine, vinyl chloride and liquefied petroleum gas, chemical manufacturers use CHEMTREC...
...prevented. The jet's 12,000 gal. of fuel contained an experimental anti-misting additive, years in development, that was supposed to prevent escaping fuel from forming a cloud of mist and then igniting into a deadly fireball. The test had been set up so that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded by 400-lb. blades that protruded from the Mojave Desert like giant can openers, and the landing surface was coarse gravel meant to throw off sparks as the plane slid along. Nevertheless, researchers were betting against...
Like Hodgkin, some artists are not so much working on the frame as working past it. They spill color across its borders to reject its entrenched authority. Others are working with decorative attachments and sculptural effects, not mocking the frame but embracing it, to restore a bit of the heraldic function that frames sometimes filled in the past...
Monarchies spill over with ceremonies...