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...gearing up for the fall harvest, and exporters may be forced to find ways around the blocked shipping channels in the lower Mississippi--a critical conduit for agricultural products. The U.S. exports about $600 billion in cargo through ports that were hit by the hurricane, and some 2,000-ton barges are literally stuck in the mud, says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred of its barges are stranded in the lower Mississippi...
...Harvard’s last practice of the year.No matter where they go, however, it will be difficult to replicate the choppy nature of the southern waters they will encounter in South Carolina.“It’s kind of tough because nationals are just a ton of current out in the open,” Porter said. “Basically, the conditions are really hard to simulate anywhere in the New England area, especially the Charles.”And it’s that focus on nationals that makes it easier to swallow the pill...
...size of the dossiers indicates anything, says Lisa L. Martin, who is senior adviser to the dean on faculty diversity, teaching performance is a large part of a tenure case. “One reason [the dossiers are] so fat is there’s always a ton of information about teaching.” DEPARTMENTAL DIFFERENCES Martin says there is variance in the level of engagement of senior faculty members in tenure cases. In some departments, every professor will write a detailed letter stating his opinions for appointments outside of his field. In other departments, especially larger ones, professors...
...conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb of lithium hydride will ever explode...
...Western Shoshone Indian tribe and representatives of two Salt Lake citizens groups have filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department to stop the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test, announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building...