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...noxious cloud that swept over Institute was not MIC but a combination of methylene chloride and aldicarb oxime. At the Institute facility, aldicarb oxime is mixed with MIC to form the active ingredient for Temik, a pesticide widely used on citrus crops. Last week's scare occurred when steam accidentally entered a metal jacket surrounding a tank that stored the chemicals, causing three gaskets to blow and 500 gal of the solution to escape...
More than a quarter-century after the Three Mile Island accident seemed to have sealed its fate, nuclear power has "a head of steam now that it hasn't had before," says Andrew White, head of General Electric's nuclear-energy business. Concerns about global warming and demand for electricity are growing, and prices for fossil fuels like natural gas are steadily rising. Even environmentalists like Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and scientist James Lovelock have endorsed the once taboo energy source as a credible, clean alternative to coal- and natural-gas-powered plants...
...loss to the Pioneers sent Harvard spiraling into a four-game losing streak, starting with a crippling 16-6 loss to No. 9 Cornell. Harvard then lost all steam, as it was trampled in its next game against Brown. Unable to score until the third period, the Crimson lost 12-3. Nor would the team be able to tidy up the wreckage of its season, as it was dismissed from Ivy contention by a crushing 12-4 loss to Princeton. Yet the fates smiled again on Harvard, if only briefly...
...women, have more stores to pull from. Guys have about 6% body fat, while women will carry about 12%." The calculus of human exertion, however, is working against all the contestants. Adventure racers typically burn as much as 500 calories an hour, but the body running full steam can process only about 300 calories an hour. Contrary to what you might think, at this level of exertion the last thing racers want to do is eat. "We try to force ourselves to eat small amounts every single hour the whole entire race, aiming for 300 calories," says Rusch...
...completing a season sweep of Northeast Conference champion Quinnipiac, the Harvard baseball team wrapped up a round of semi-casual warm-ups against the Bobcats and launched towards the NCAA Tournament at full steam...