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Archaeologists and paleontologists trying to ascertain the age of bone, wood and charcoal from ancient sites have long employed a technique called carbon-14 dating. This dating game has its drawbacks: it requires the destruction of a sizable portion of the sample and cannot, without costly and time-consuming treatment, determine the age of any object more than about 40,000 years old. But a new method promises to overcome both obstacles. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Toronto and General lonex Corp. of Ipswich, Mass., is developing a way of dating objects that...
...subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made, he notes, about the more immediate environmental concerns of factory workers and slumdwellers: "Poverty is degradation, misery and starvation, not the level of carbon monoxide in the air." Growth, he repeats, is the best solution to poverty. Beckerman jokes that he would like to retire from the growth debate, but cannot just now because "the zero-growth merchants have been creeping back." He believes that their case is still pure rubbish. "What is so sacred...
...diabetics. Last week scientists at the University of California in San Francisco reported that they had taken an important first step toward that goal. Using the bold new technology, they not only gave a bacterium potential insulin-making capability but also got the bug to reproduce millions of precise carbon copies of itself, all with the same new characteristic...
...after getting thrown out of Outward Bound in his thirteenth summer--for taking a penknife on his solo. Shapiro once went out with woman whose sole saving grace was here last name, which was DuPont. DuPont. Shapiro rolled it around on his tongue, and it always came out--hydro-carbon effluents--nah, it came out money. Money to travel. Money to write. Money to never have to worry about money again. And she loved him, in her insipid, lobotomized little way, or so they imagined. He went out to dinner with her parents--no take-out Chinese from those Chiang...
...mystique. Ads will note that the water, which has been bottled commercially since 1863, has been bubbling up from a single underground spring near Mimes in Southern France for thousands of years. For the health-minded, the campaign will emphasize that the drink, which gets its sparkle from carbon dioxide that occurs naturally in the water, is high in calcium and almost salt free. The company "believes," but will not be able to advertise in the U.S., that the water helps "prevent heart disease in some instances, keep makeup fresh and soothe a hangover." Perrier President Gustave Leven says simply...