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...spectators cheered, a 600-ft. tongue of bright orange flame scorched a Utah hillside last week. Jubilation was in order: the firing marked the first full- scale test of the space shuttle's revamped solid rocket booster since last year's Challenger explosion. After a government commission pinned the tragedy on faulty seals in the booster, manufactured by Morton Thiokol, the company returned to the drawing board. Last week's firing, the first of six, tested new electrical heaters and reinforcing bands on the booster's joints. "We've taken a real bashing by the press," said Morton Thiokol Engineer...
...minute and up to 250 megawatts of power, as well as accessibility to a major airport, so the world's scientists can fly in and out. According to Scientific American, the front runners in the accelerator SSC race appear to be Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Ohio and Utah...
...reply of Democrat James Howard of New Jersey. Howard, chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, has been fighting to preserve the old speed limit to preserve lives. The nation's highest rural fatality rates, he maintained, are out West: Nevada is first, followed by Utah, Alaska, Arizona and Montana. "The No. 1 cause ((of deaths)) is not drinking and driving," said Howard. "The No. 1 cause is speed...
Grassroots projects in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Colombia, India, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka are among the many funded by ODN's various chapters. An ODN branch at Yale University sponsored a cooperative bakery in Tangwena, Zimbabwe and one at the University of Utah helped finance construction of a well in a small Bolivian town. During the past three years, ODN has sponsored a total of 15 such programs...
...some 40 states now restrict smoking in public places; 33 prohibit it in trains, buses, streetcars or subways; 17 forbid it in offices and other workplaces. There are also about 800 local ordinances against tobacco. The restrictions vary widely. Utah, for example, bars cigarette advertising on billboards, and Maine forbids smoking in covered bridges. But every week brings new rules and new tightening of old rules...