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Gore's speech will focus on "how people can take control of their own existence through community involvement," said John Toohey, a Gore spokesperson...
...Darin W. Toohey, a post-doctoral fellow in chemical physics, and his research team, wrote in the January edition of the Geophysical Research Letters that measurements of chlorine monoxide taken February 1989 over the United States were five to 10 times higher than their levels the previous October...
That is why Toohey's finding is so unusual. Using observations from NASA's high-altitude ER-2 research plane, he found that while normal chlorine levels of 20 to 30 parts per billion were measured in October and early December of 1988, twice that concentration was detected in late December and five to 10 times the October amount was observed on a flight from Virginia to California on February...
...these levels of chlorine monoxide--the highest ever measured at midlatitudes--persist for a month, they could destroy as much as two percent of the ozone in a given region, according to Toohey...
...food and especially of drink; he is no crowd pleaser but no fool either, a traditionalist, competent and at the same time numbed by routine. Like many a middle-age professional man, he has problems with the home office (obstructive tactics by the chancery, presided over by Monsignor "Catfish" Toohey, a despised rival of Joe's since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated by the "40-foot idol" of the Great Badger, complete...