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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...move that will help wean soldiers from the plastic bottles, Milwaukee- based Aqua-Chem last month shipped Operation Desert Shield three state-of- , the-art water-purification units with a total value of nearly $1 million. Each of the mobile units, which use a process called reverse osmosis to convert salt water or contaminated water to drinking water, can produce up to 3,000 gal. per hour under battlefield conditions. Together the units can meet the needs of 10,000 troops...
...Lifers insist they get no special treatment for their good works, no favoritism from the parole board. For many, a tangled struggle for survival landed them behind bars in the first place. Now they use what limited means they have to ease that struggle for someone else. "Society looks at us as someone who can't do anything -- we're not taxpayers or anything," says Maxwell Melvins, who ended up in jail after shooting an innocent bystander in an argument over drugs. "Well, this is my way to reach back...
Sullivan has faced heavy protest from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) in past visits to the College, although the Boston-based chapter of the group was not present at last night's dinner. ACT-UP has demanded that Sullivan use his influence to relax immigration laws to allow individuals infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus into the country...
...Students use the GSD's computers for a variety of different design techniques, such as animation, mapping, and developing models for proposed buildings. The computer system, which consists of about 40 terminals, is also used for word-processing, programming and spreadsheets...
Hoffer said that the computers, used by nearly all the student body, are a staple of the educational program at the GSD. About 350 of the school's 400 students are signed up to use the terminals this semester...