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There is nothing mysterious about the buildup of atmospheric CO2. All fires, from the smoky flames of cave dwellers to the searing hearth of a modern steel plant, produce CO2. It makes no difference whether the fire is fueled by wood, coal, oil or gas. The inevitable byproduct is always dumped into what scientists sardonically call the "sewer...
...increasing number of scientists maintain that the forests are being slashed and burned at a perilous rate. This is being done both to extend agriculture and, especially in the impoverished developing countries, to use the wood as a fuel. By desiccating and destroying the land, the ruthless felling of trees has still another harmful side effect: it exposes rich topsoil, or humus, and allows the escape of CO2 formerly trapped...
School Supt. Robert C. Wood had said before the vote that administrative personnel and substitutes would staff Boston classrooms this morning if teachers voted to strike...
Actually, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor is not merely a play, but a play for actors and orchestra, and therein lies the trick. One of the two main characters, the mad Ivanov (John Wood), believes that he owns an orchestra, and is put in a Soviet insane asylum...
...better medical understanding, new drugs and such sophisticated monitoring and screening techniques as ultrasonics and amniocentesis. Yet while the U.S. helped start this revolution in perinatal and neonatal* care, it still lags behind a dozen other countries in infant-survival rates. To help solve this problem, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., allocated $20 million for a five-year experiment that established or expanded regional networks-three in California, two in New York and one each in Ohio, Texas and Arizona. All deliver specialized care for high-risk pregnancies, that is, those that pose danger to mother...