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There will also be some secondary effects from the mangrove destruction. Villagers in the south relied on the mangroves as a major source of wood for fuel and charcoal. Mangrove-lined waterways provide food and nursing grounds for fish and crustaceans, too. Mangroves are active photosynthesizers and fix carbon into an organic form the fish can use. The HAC was unable to estimate the magnitude of this function but suggested that its impact on the fishing industry deserved study...
Tillinghast staged the demonstration to show the industry's progress in curbing air pollution by modifying jet-engine combustion chambers to burn a leaner fuel on takeoff. This eliminates smoke, though not invisible gases like carbon monoxide. TWA is spending $2,000,000 to alter its engines this way; all U.S. airlines are pledged to achieve smokeless takeoffs by 1973, which may cost the lines as much as $100 million...
Late and Broke. The development problems quickly escalated beyond Rolls' calculations. To keep the engine's weight down. Rolls engineers planned to make the RB-211's fan blades out of lightweight carbon fibers. But the fibers could not stand the crunch when hail or birds were sucked into the 7-ft. fans. Last April, Rolls managers decided to keep working on the fibers but to forge the fan blades for the first few engines from titanium; this meant that they had two expensive development programs going. As time to deliver the engines ran short, Rolls started...
...individual letter of complaint seldom moves a manufacturer to replace a car or refund the purchase price, but a buyer can greatly increase his leverage if he allies himself with other consumers and takes his case to Government agencies or others concerned with consumer protection. Nader suggests that carbon copies of a letter of complaint to a manufacturer should be mailed to the dealer, a lawyer, the President's Committee on Consumer Interests, the buyer's Senators and Congressman, the Federal Trade Commission, the Nader-sponsored Center for Auto Safety in Washington, a local newspaper or radio "action...
...such famous oceanographic centers as Rutgers University and Florida State University, the most promising results have come from a small, modestly financed firm in Springfield, Va. Going beyond most other researchers, Bioteknika International Inc. has produced a special microbe "cocktail" that seems to break oil down into carbon dioxide, water, sugars and proteins−all of which enhance marine life...