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...proposal that would require automakers to start selling cars that run on gasoline substitutes by 1995. Car companies would be told to produce 500,000 such vehicles the first year and 1 million units a year beginning in 1997. Among possible substitutes: methanol, a high-octane alcohol derived from wood; ethanol, or "gasohol," a blend of gasoline and grain alcohol; and compressed natural...
...WESTERN WORLD (PBS, debuting Oct. 2, 9 p.m. on most stations). British historian Michael Wood is host for this coffee-table survey of the great works, with a stress on their cultural and historical context...
...moved on all fronts simultaneously, which has confronted him with all the country's problems at once." Many Soviet scholars regard the party bureaucracy as the main obstacle to reform and argue that Gorbachev, despite top-level housecleaning, has so far failed to sweep out conservatives and dead wood at the middle and local levels, where things get done -- or don't. Others say glasnost unleashed pent-up ethnic resentment. By attacking across the board, Gorbachev only produced confusion, resistance and rampant nationalism. Says a Foreign Office expert in London: "You don't have to be a Soviet conservative...
Hockey Flashback: He was no Lane MacDonald, but Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence was still an impressive forward when he skated for the Princeton Tigers in the '60s, according to his former coach, R. Norman Wood '54. Wood remembers Spence as a "solid" player with "strong legs" and "good speed...
...course, "he wasn't built like he is now," Wood said of the now-lanky dean. "He was very stocky...