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...swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...
...Science authors do not oppose all asbestos removal, but they contend that it should be done only when the level and type of airborne particles are clearly hazardous. Given the cost of asbestos removal -- $20 or more per sq. ft., or 100 times the price of installing it -- that argument should be a weighty one for policymakers...
...convenience store bakery chain, which already operates a restaurant at the heart of the Square in Holyoke Center, will open a 2000-sq.-ft. Au Bon Pain Express unit about five blocks east in a space formerly occupied by the Vie de France cafe, a top executive said...
...expensive hotel suite in the world. The six high-tech rooms boast such extravagant features as an aquarium containing a giant stingray, artwork on the walls that can be changed electronically, and heat-detecting switches that turn on lights when a person walks into the room. The 2,500-sq.- ft. silver-and-white suite even comes equipped with a robot named Ursula who acts as a servant...
When a software firm called Computer Associates hired CRSS to design its eight high-rise floors outside Dallas, the intended budget was just $21 per sq. ft. (Corporate interior design routinely costs two to five times that.) Strasser brought the job in for $17.50. But he does not take a modest budget as an excuse to make a space cheap looking and characterless. Computer Associates' elevator banks are artful black-and-white geometric compositions reminiscent of the Viennese secessionists and feature handsome light fixtures on the walls -- short, exposed fluorescent bulbs only partly shielded by rectangular flanges. IBM's bigger...