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...Arsenic was ever funny seems a mystery. This alleged black comedy is really a Victorian comedy of manners in disguise. Mortimer Brewster and Elaine Harper are in love, but the antics and machinations of his relatives threaten to destroy the romance. The twist is that his relatives are all crazy, and some of their antics are murderous...
...flag and guarded by the U.S. Navy since July. The Administration quickly denounced the attack as an "outrageous act of aggression." As top national security officials gathered at the White House on Friday to formulate strategy, there was widespread speculation that the U.S. would retaliate, perhaps by attempting to destroy the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles thought to be responsible. Asked what the U.S. should do, a senior naval officer preparing papers for a National Security Planning Group meeting clenched his fist and raised it threateningly...
...refuseniks, the couple was not allowed to compete in chess tournaments. But seven years out of the limelight did not destroy the couple's reputation. "The KGB couldn't take away our prestige in the chess world," Gulko said...
...final. Nitrogen and ozone levels were down, but concentrations of chlorine monoxide were 100 times as great as equivalent levels at temperate latitudes. Says Watson: "We can forget the solar theories. We can no longer debate that chlorine monoxide exists and that its abundance is high enough to destroy ozone, if our understanding of the catalytic cycle is correct. We need to go back to the lab and resolve the uncertainty...
...natural and as such have long been part of the climatic equilibrium. Termites, for example, produce enormous amounts of gas as they digest woody vegetation: a single termite mound can emit five liters of methane a minute. The methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites," says Environmental Chemist Patrick Zimmerman, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "could be responsible for as much as 50% of the total atmospheric methane budget...