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TIME'S stories on the climax of the Beirut hostage crisis [NATION, July 8] were exceptional. But you failed to mention one possible method of preventing terrorist acts against Americans in the Middle East: travel to the region must be severely restricted, if not stopped altogether. David S. Draper Arcata, Calif...
...terrorism really is a holy war, since so many moderate Muslims are standing by silently, out of complicity or fear, while gangsterlike extremists are defining a militant Islam for the next generation. THOMAS W. DRAPER Provo, Utah...
DIED. RUSTY DRAPER, 80, country singer of the 1950s and '60s, responsible for such million sellers as Gambler's Guitar and The Shifting, Whispering Sands; of pneumonia; in Bellevue, Wash...
...their tendency to clump together, platinum is not used efficiently. The world's entire annual output of platinum would not meet the demand if fuel cells were used by only 10% of cars produced worldwide. Hydrocarbon Technologies--which is owned by Headwaters, an alternative-energy company based in Draper, Utah--says it has found a way to create nanoscale platinum particles that won't clump together and slow down the process, as current ones do. The new particles are expected to keep fuel cells running in a stable, efficient manner and stretch the platinum supply. Tim Harper, founder...
...converting coal directly into liquid fuels can compete with that of refining crude oil. Nanotechnology may be the long-awaited breakthrough. "It has improved the economics of the process by $5 to $10 a barrel," says Theo Lee, CEO of Hydrocarbon Technologies Incorporated, a subsidiary of Headwaters, a Draper, Utah-based alternative-energy company. "Direct coal liquefaction is now economically attractive in China at today's international crude-oil price [of about $28]; a $4 to $8 a barrel increase in the price would make it economically attractive...