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Richard V. Scali, executive officer of the Cambridge License Commission said in an interview that Harvard has been very cooperative with Huber since the issue was brought to their attention in 1996. They invested $100,000 in order to install a smokestack and filtering system...
...small satellites ought to have been elusive targets for incoming debris. Orbiting so close to Jupiter, however, they lay in the path of any projectiles drawn in by the planet's gravity. When a rock hits one of the moons, it releases dust that follows the moons like smokestack exhaust...
...course, no name change is really forthcoming. The Dow keepers--editors at the Wall Street Journal--have been softening the average's smokestack image for years, and no one seems terribly confused. Still, it's notable that today only half the Dow companies are true metal benders, a testament to sweeping changes in the economy during the past few decades...
...Hossein Amini and directed by Michael Winterbottom, places its hero and heroine in the context of a society that rejects their mild bohemianism. Jude (Christopher Eccleston) studies for the sheer pleasure of the text; Sue (Kate Winslet) flaunts her agnosticism and struts in bars, turning a cigarette into a smokestack (a gesture used so well in Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, the classic film about the perils of loving a liberated woman). They are also the modern homeless: their evictions from "decent" homes set up an atrocity that still shocks 100 years after the novel was published...
...that industrialization, avidly pursued during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze darkened the clouds, and the smell of chemicals...