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...major focus of the expedition is pollution. Although concentrations of many contaminants have been markedly reduced in the Great Lakes (Superior is the cleanest), toxic chemicals like PCB remain a problem. Researchers plan to devote 16 dives to studying the nepheloid, a cloudy, particle-laden 6-in. layer of water just above the lake floor that seems to trap, and then rerelease, pollutants. "We had thought that bottom sediments were sort of permanent sinks for contaminants attached to particles," explains Steven Eisenreich, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Minnesota. "Now we're finding out that under certain...
...Asian financial crisis was still a fresh memory. Now, India and China are two of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and both of them are developing geopolitical ambitions to match. Indonesia?the quintessential Asian basket case just eight years ago?last year celebrated the cleanest election it has ever had, and can at last look forward to playing a role in the region commensurate with its size. While the U.S. was otherwise engaged, Asians set down markers that whatever the world of the new century may look like, they are going to help shape...
...enough, experts say, to match the output of 50 Maui gas fields? When dwindling gas flows forced the country's largest power station, at Huntly, to switch to coal last year, there were noisy protests. Once the old station at Marsden Point is modernized, it will be the cleanest coal-fired plant in Australasia, says its owner, Mighty River Power. But that doesn't impress critics, who say getting electricity from coal is a betrayal of New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol obligations. "It's a backward step for us to start using coal," says Fitzsimons...
...these vaults contains the cleanest prints of The Birth of a Nation. Because the HFA has a policy of not allowing film prints to be copied or loaned, Miller had to work on site...
...team took a necessary step towards establishing itself at home, and though the weekend did not feature the cleanest play, Harvard proved itself capable of both comebacks and offensive explosions...