After the smoke clears

Article Abstract:

The destructive forest fires that happened in Mexico in 1998, brought about by the El Nino phenomenon, have forced government officials to change forest fire prevention policies and practices. The forest fires were declared a national calamity with as many as 14,000 fires reported by the end of the dry season and as much as 600,000 acres of forest land burned. The fires were concentrated in the provinces of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco in southeastern Mexico. Government authorities hope that the revised environmental policies would reduce the severity of forest fires in the future.

Mexico, Fires, Forest fires, Wildfires

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Automation doesn't automatically solve problems

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Flexible environment, well-trained workers, and effective management can ensure better productivity from an application of process control technology. The applications of automation technology are growing, but the human factor still remains crucial to organizational effectiveness. The design of technology needs to incorporate this human factor for successful automation. At the same time, the workers have to be trained to effectively use these technologies. The misconception that automation reduces operators' training and aptitudes requirements has to be changed.

Methods, Management, Technology application, Automation, Process control, Industrial productivity, Industry, Industries

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Designs for the next millennium; the archival cockroach, and a dozen other ways to talk to the future

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The New York Times Magazine, in its planning of a time capsule issue, invited various capsule design entries. The discussed entries range from a code affixed to a cockroach's DNA to a capsule made to look like a Coca-Cola can.

United States, Planning, Design and construction, Periodical publishing, The New York Times Magazine (Periodical), Time capsules

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