Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as Los Angeles struggled with its auto-emissions problem, word came from Cambridge, Mass., about a more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...
...donors at blood centers in 18 areas of the U.S. They accepted as the danger threshold the one laid down by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act: a 1.5% concentration of car boxy hemoglobin (COHb)-the proportion of the body's oxygen-transport system that has been usurped by CO. Nonsmokers breathing pure air, they found, had a natural concentration...
...sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...been to make things larger and larger, to the point where the great outdoors must itself become a museum. This has created a stock of homeless public sculpture-"monumental" but commemorating nothing except itself, kept in the warehouse by a scarcity of sites and the forbidding cost of transport and installation. What park could be given to these orphans? How could their possible relationship to landscape be tested? And what would be seen to happen...
...International Air Transport Association voted last week to boost fares on the North Atlantic an average 10% on Nov. 1, on top of three increases totaling 18% earlier this year...