STARK RAVING MAD

The origin of AIDS has now been pin-pointed: strontium from A-bomb fall out, refuting the hunch of Sister Rosalie Bertell, who suspected the uranium in Zambia. The discoverer: The illustrious Dr Ernest Sternglass.

"As more people eat high-fiber foods, the gas blasted into the atmosphere is increasing dramatically," warns Robert Park of Scotland's Rowett Research Institute; the methane and other greenhouse gases generated by human flatulence is driving up the planet's temperature. (The Examiner, June 1990).

Robert Hornung, Atmospheric Campaigner for the Friends of the Earth in Ottawa, Ont., is concerned about stamp collectors destroying the ozone layer, for many watermark detection fluids contain a CFC chemical: "Friends of the Earth challenges stamp collectors to end their use of this environmentally harmful product" (especially, I take it, if they are on a high-fiber diet).

GPU, owner of TMI, lost several billion dollars in that acci-dent. But they have plenty more money to burn. GPU chairman Stan Hoch hired Amory Lovins as a consultant, and last November called a two-day meeting of his top staff plus 100 other GPU managers to discuss the "ideas" of Lovins (how to produce less power) and Greenpeace charlatan Wasserman (how lo scare people silly about nuclear power). Everybody would leave the meetings with a renewed sense of cooperation, gushed Hoch, urging employees to "embrace with an open mind the notion that our vision is realizable."

Beverly, Mass., High School had a solar-electric system in-stalled for $2 million in 1980, hoping to save $10,000 per year in electricity costs. This would have corresponded to break-even in 200 years, but hopes of achieving it by the year 2,280 were shat-tered two years ago when the contraption conked out. Now the State of Mass. and Mass. Electric jointly have thrown in another $170,000 for parts and maintenance over the next 10 of the now 207 remaining years to break-even. Looks like they, too, have hired Lovins as a consultant. (Source: Boston Sunday Globe, 1/6/91)