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In 1964, a report produced by the Tennessee Department of Public Health stated that the Chattanooga Creek was “without a doubt, the most grossly polluted stream in the Chattanooga area.†In 1969, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that Chattanooga, Tennessee had the poorest air quality in the nation. This was due, in [...] I initially intended to write about solar power in outer space. It makes sense to put an array of solar cells between the earth and the sun where they can receive direct sunlight unattenuated by the earth’s atmosphere, clouds, smog, dust, etc. But there are two major problems to be solved: How do we get [...] You could say that Los Angeles has a love/hate relationship with the bicycle, but (in the manner of all things LA) it’s a rather eccentric one. Angeleno bicyclists love so much about LA—the weather, the mountains and beaches, the leafy side streets, the breathtaking light — but LA as a whole does not love bicyclists. [...] The world’s largest single nuclear weapons storage facility is a huge underground bunker in New Mexico. Because of a backlog of warheads awaiting dismantlement at the one U.S. facility that is equipped to load and unload nuclear warheads the safe way, Pantex, there are more nuclear weapons stored underground here than any other single place [...] TEXAS ranks 10th in number of nuclear warheads deployed, a change from 5th place (and 1,365 warheads) in 1992 and 6th place in 1985 (630 warheads). However, nuclear weapons are stored only at the Pantex Plant of the Department of Energy outside of Amarillo on a temporary basis while they await dismantlement. Though the composition [...] |
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