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...days before. Repair work is dangerous because of unexploded bombs. People in the province are preparing for the worst. I'm told everyone has a boat, that the top floors and roofs of homes have been reinforced and that research is being done on crops that grow underwater.A sulfur butterfly is resting on the lip of a bomb crater. Little things...
...Sulfur dioxide from the Kilauea volcano is causing health problems in Hawaii ? Smoking-prevention programs in schools have had almost no influence on whether teens light up ? The shorter a man's index finger is relative to his ring finger, the more aggressive he is likely to be (this doesn't apply to women) ? The fat in avocados helps the body absorb cancer-fighting nutrients
...Bush made clear his opposition to the treaty itself, but he also argued that the United States should work with other countries to develop new technologies to reduce harmful emissions. He had even expressed support for legislation to require the mandatory reduction in the United States of emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, and the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, from power plants. His inclusion of carbon dioxide was significant. Many Republicans had been arguing for years that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant, and they were bound to oppose any effort to regulate it, as was much...
VENUS Its size and composition make it almost a twin of Earth, but its atmosphere is so thick that pressure at the surface is 90 times that on Earth. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide flavored with sulfur and sulfuric acid, which has caused a runaway greenhouse effect. The result: temperatures of more than 800°F (430?...
...lane road to the south of Central City, Pa., set back in the woods along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes out of that building--off limits to the public...