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This environment reporter's idea of interactive technology was to tap the computer case with a 12-in. adjustable-end wrench to correct vapor lock and improve e-mail reception. Mostly on instinct, he patrolled the environment outdoors and avoided the World Wide Web. The information superhighway vanished last year, he noticed, at least as an annoying metaphor, and maybe the World Wide Web would go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Protective measures vary, depending on the nature of the chemicals involved. When responding to vapor spills, firefighters must don Level A gear, which includes self-enclosed breathing apparatuses (SEBA) and fully encapsulated suits...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Can We Prevent Chemical Spills? | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

Harvard officials suggested that water vapor from the dishwasher and kettles--becoming visible as it hits the cold air outside the club--may be another possible cause of the emissions...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faculty Club Hearing Postponed | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

...popular song (with no little credit to the cunningly-penned name), strode into the UK charts at three. International Velvet was then released to scramble into the charts at 11, subsequently moving to three. And that explains why Catatonia were finally picked up by American label Neil Young's Vapor. Potential moolah, not amazing artistry...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Catatonia Dreamin' | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...critical flight control." Such speculation is perhaps inspired by the conclusion of the investigation into the crash of TWA 800 near Long Island on July 17, 1996. That disaster's likely cause: exhaust heat from the Boeing 747's air conditioners transformed its fuel into a hot vapor so combustible that a mere spark, possibly from a frayed wire, touched off the disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Safe Harbor | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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