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MATEP, designed to provide chilled water, steam heat and electicity to 13 institutions in the medical area, needs the diesels to be cost-and energy-efficient. But community fears of harmful levels of nitrogen dioxide and carcinogenic emissions have blocked DEQE approval for four years...
...Huey chopper, piloted by National Guard Captain Harold Ward, went up the south fork of the Toutle, which had turned into a caramel ribbon, toward the peak, still shrouded in clouds of steam and ash. The mocha-colored terrain appeared otherworldly, a madly undulating landscape. The trees looked as if they had been strewn across the foothills by a careless child. As we passed over Baker Camp, a logging base, we spotted a pickup truck, a dead child lying face upward in the back. Ward swung the Huey over a huge mudhole that had once been Spirit Lake, a body...
...Mount Pelee, a long-dormant volcano on the island of Martinique, exploded, sending a huge cloud of dust, steam and gas, believed to be as hot as 1,800° F over the town of Saint-Pierre. Within minutes the town was a smoldering ruin, and 29,933 inhabitants were dead. Only four residents are known to have survived, including a convicted murderer who was imprisoned in a dungeon cell...
...third quarter, the score was knotted at eight when Blue Jay attackman Jim Zaffuto pulled a quick fake and went to the cage, giving Hopkins a lead it never relinquished. Gathering steam, middie Brendan Schneck bagged a goal a minute later to give the Blue Jays the 10-8 lead they held at the close of the quarter...
...Steam costs have increased from an average of 87 cents a unit in 1970-71 to $3.61 in 1978-79, Kaufmann said, adding that the University projects steam will cost $9.21 a unit next year if oil reaches $44 a barrel...