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...plastic foam and as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners. These gases account for an estimated 15% of the greenhouse effect. Another strategy is to burn as much methane as possible. That adds CO2 to the air, but getting rid of the methane is well worth it. Both gases trap heat, but as a greenhouse gas, methane traps 20 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, molecule for molecule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Global Warming Feeling the Heat | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...opening game features a well-devised trap. But the lad is too slithery to hold, and he is soon en route to maman, with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savory Gambits | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

With the game tied, 3-3, and 56 seconds remaining in overtime, sophomore Peter Ciavaglia took the puck on a faceoff and looked to the point...and Wildcat rookie defenseman Frank Messina fell into the trap. Ciavaglia passed the puck to sophomore John Weisbrod--whom Messina left open in front of the net--and Weisbrod fired in the game-winner in a 4-3 triumph for the Crimson...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Shoot Down Wildcats, 4-3 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...seeming weakness turned out to be a trap. The company's officers even let it be known that Kravis was heading to Vail, Colo., for a skiing weekend and that Roberts was flying back to his home in San Francisco. But Kravis and Roberts stayed in close touch with their team in New York City as it prepared the final attack. When the directors met last week on the 35th floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper to open the final bids, they found that Kravis and Roberts had pumped their offer up to $106 a share, while the apparently complacent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 250,000,000,000 Buyout Barons : KKR outfox Ross Johnson's group | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

LA.P.D. Detective Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) smells trouble. And gets it. Thugs drill him with lead, he gets wet paint on his jacket, a bear trap snaps on his leg, and a window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before he has * brought the evil Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban) to justice, Drebin must do business with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stretch Marks | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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