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Gatto has a special talent for discovering pollution. He can smell a leaking septic tank from a moving vehicle. He once brought his patrol car to a screeching halt--to the shock of his passengers--and began sniffing the air like a bloodhound. Before long he found and ticketed an illegal septic bypass. No one is safe from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into...
...founder of a think tank called the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lovins, 52, makes his home amid the alpine splendor of Snowmass, Colorado, but his influence can be seen in Detroit, Tokyo, Stuttgart--wherever cars are made. In 1991, before the industry got serious about greener cars, Lovins used a speech before the U.S. National Research Council to call for a transportation revolution. Though the title--"Advanced Light Vehicle Concepts"--could have used more pizazz, the response was immediate. More than two dozen car companies have enlisted his expertise from time to time...
...media has blown out of proportion every single jump, dive, boost, explosion in the stock market," he says. "It's the number one story, not Elian, not the Philippines, not Clinton. A small drop becomes next day's tank because of the media...
...room searches yielded several potentially dangerous items, she said, including a hot plate left on over spring break and a hibachi with a full propane tank...
...Princeton righthander Jason Quintana (3-1) settled down as Harvard's tank went dry, and he shut down the Crimson over his final six innings. Quintana allowed three earned runs through eight innings, striking out six without walking...