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HP Impact: HPImpact: How are computer products recycled?
Where have the millions of old, unwanted PCs gone? Most people are aware of the accelerating pace of technological change and its dramatic shortening of the useful lives of personal computers and othe..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Web site offers motor oil recycling tips
The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimates that half of U.S. motorists change the oil in their own vehicles. This used oil – from cars, light trucks, motorcycles and boats – if imprope..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Structural engineering journals, databases
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is offering a trial phase of its Online Journals Program. It provides free, full content access to the 1999 journals, along with 80,000 bibliographic rec..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Notes from the 1999 ECC Conference
Over 450 industry representatives participated in this year's Engineering & Construction Contracting Conference, held at the new La Cantera Resort in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 16–17. Attendees in..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
World chemical production in 1998 rose to $1.5 trillion. Western Europe has the largest share at 35%; North America's is 29%. According to data from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: New merger creates global polymers giant
The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan, and Union Carbide Corp., Danbury, Connecticut, have made a merger agreement. Under the terms, Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) shareholders will receive 0.537 shares ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Help for air quality measurements
A new database from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helps measure airborne pollutants with greater accuracy. The Quantitative Infrared Database has been designed to calibrate..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Major ECC projects valued at $50 billion
The value of major projects run by international contracting and engineering companies in refining, petrochemicals/ plastics and gas processing amounts to about $50 billion/yr. This figure, however, i..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Is the mentoring idea making a comeback?
In the past, companies often had the "luxury" of assigning new hires an experienced "old hand" to guide them through the corporate structure. This person, a mentor, would help the employee grow profes..
HP Impact: HPImpact: U.S. air quality: it has improved along with the economy
A new study on air quality in the U.S. shows that the nation has made dramatic progress reducing emissions that pollute the air. That progress is expected to continue well into the next century. Betwe..
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