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Almost unbelievably, the most-traveled route on the Amtrak system--the Boston-Washington line--is still not fully electrified; all trains must switch locomotives in New Haven, Conn. The U.S. needs a renewed political and financial commitment to making train travel rapid and economical. Developing a new generation of high-speed trains will be awfully expensive (especially building rail lines through the suburban sprawl of the Northeast Corridor), but the energy shortage will require it sooner or later. And the longer we wait, the worse the obstacles become...
...areas of heavy pollution. "Natural gas has the lowest carbon dioxide emissions of any of the fossil fuels," notes James MacKenzie, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute, an environmental group. More natural gas could be used for electrical generation, mainly to replace coal. "Power plants can switch fuels and cut their emissions of sulfur instantly with relatively inexpensive changes in equipment," says MacKenzie. The most untapped market is transportation. More than 30,000 cars and trucks in the U.S. run on natural gas, and automakers have shown increasing interest in the technology. Last week General Motors and Tecogen...
...blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks at his land, he won't rule it out totally. The land in the end will decide...
Solbrig plans to increase the pace of the course in 1992 and possibly to switch "Plants" from the Core to the Biology Department so that only those students genuinely interested in the material would have reason to enroll...
...between the personal stories and pulls few punches. In the opening program, a man survives a battle with colon cancer -- or so we think, until the offscreen narrator informs us at the end that his cancer reappeared one year later and he died. For this, viewers are supposed to switch away from America's Funniest Home Videos...