News Forum Archives: March 2004
The only way is down
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The skyscraper has reached, and passed, the apex of its role in Western society, writes Paul Sheehan, though nobody has told the Chinese.
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Panel of Experts Finds That Anti-Pollution Laws Are Outdated
January 30, 2004
By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times
Despite three decades of progress, existing air-quality laws are inadequate to prevent pollution from threatening the environment and human health, the nation’s top scientific advisory group concluded yesterday.
The panel, the National Research Council of the National Academies, said it was particularly concerned about ozone, an ingredient of smog that has proved difficult to curtail, and fine soot, which has been shown to be especially harmful.
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Students Turn to Fast Food for Cleaner Fuel Recipe
Va. Chemistry Class Creates Biodiesel Out of Used Fry Oil
By Leef Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Science teacher Bill Peery was on a mission for higher education.
The object of his search lay not in a library but at the bottom of a Burger King deep fryer: 15 gallons of congealed vegetable oil.
No, there would be no class lessons on fat grams and the nutritional void that is fast food. Peery and his teaching colleagues at the Potomac School in McLean had much grander plans for the stuff.
Yesterday, his eighth-grade students “gassed up” one of the school’s little yellow buses with their own classroom-made, fryer-fat fuel—environmentally friendly biodiesel.
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