Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...HORSE VETERINARIAN, Doctor E. Scott MacAllister, lets me ride with him for a day, to watch him work and take some pictures as he makes his rounds to local farms (local meaning within fifty miles of his home.) Though cloudy, it is so bright I must squint to keep my eyes from smarting. He tells me last year he put 45,000 miles on his Astro-Van. We sit in the two front seats with the rest of the van filled with pills, salves, buckets and the other tools of his trade. We stop at eight or nine farms that...
...Republicans running in prochoice districts, an anti-abortion position is like a political scarlet letter. The New York State Republican Committee has actually dropped the anti-abortion cause from its agenda, saving its local candidates from the embarassment of ambiguity and political dissent...
...next day we went to Simmons College, where the Italians are taking their English classes at the local office of English Language Service (ELS), an international English teaching corporation. (This is a bit of an irony, as we are an all-male group and Simmons is a women's college.) We arrived at nine in the morning and were told the Italians' placement tests were...
...with rocks, Molotov cocktails and AK-47 rifles erected cobblestone barricades, ignited piles of tires and engaged in sporadic gunfire. From some trenches flew the red-and-black Sandinista flag, from others Nicaragua's blue-and-white flag. At least four civilians died and scores were wounded. Fretted a local businessman: "This must be how Beirut began...
When will all-solar cars be rolling out of local showrooms? Probably never, says Paul MacCready, the guru of low-powered transportation and one of the designers of the GM Sunraycer, winner of the 1987 World Solar Challenge across Australia. To run dependably on cloudy days, a solar car would have to carry sufficient power to make the trip on batteries alone. Better to charge the car from a wall socket and use the solar cells elsewhere -- perhaps at power stations to ease the load of generators running on nuclear or nonrenewable fossil fuels. The real value of Sunraycer, says...