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After its plant in Bhopal, India, leaked deadly methyl isocyanate in December and killed at least 1,400 people, Union Carbide stopped making the pesticide ingredient at its facility in Institute, W. Va. Last week officials of the U.S. company announced that they expect to resume production of the toxic chemical at the Institute plant by April 1. Before that time, Union Carbide will have completed its investigation of the Bhopal disaster...
...information overload, generating hundreds of responses. At the same time, computers can be too efficient, eliminating what is called the serendipity factor. "The real joy of scholarly research is discovering something valuable in the process of looking for something else," says Arnold Compton, a retired schoolteacher from Arlington, Va. "You can't do that with a computer. Or at least I haven't figured...
Written under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald in 1978 by William Pierce, leader of a white supremacist group in Arlington, Va., The Turner Diaries was taken seriously by one militant group in the Northwest. Federal and state authorities say that members of a 30to-40-person gang calling itself The Order, apparently named for the revolutionaries in Pierce's book, were responsible for a $500,000 armored-car robbery last April in Seattle; a $3.6 million Brink's armored-car holdup last July in Ukiah, Calif.; and three shootouts with the police and FBI since October in Idaho, Oregon and Washington...
Union Carbide, which disclosed late last month that leaks at its Institute, W. Va., plant had resulted in a revision of procedures there, has conceded that some of the information coming out of India is correct. The company has acknowledged that a backup storage tank that was supposed to be empty at the time of the accident had in fact been partly filled. But company officials declined to comment in detail on other findings until they could study the results of their investigation...
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole set off howls of protest last week when she announced that the winner of a lengthy bidding battle to buy 85% of Conrail is Norfolk Southern railroad of Norfolk, Va. (The remaining 15% is owned by Conrail employees.) The $1.2 billion purchase would unite two of the three dominant eastern railroads and forge the largest U.S. freight line, with 34,000 miles of track. The third big railroad, CSX, which runs the Chessie and Seaboard lines, complained that the merger would create a giant that would flatten rivals like pennies on a rail. Some companies...