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VOLKSWAGEN REALLY DID IT THIS TIME: A 1,430-MPG CAR! The "Sparmobile" — a lightweight, streamlined three-wheeler designed in Germany by a team of VW engineers — ran at an average speed of 25 miles an hour for more than 57 hours (that's almost two and a half days, folks!) on one gallon of gasoline . . . during the Kilometer Marathon held at West Germany's Hockenheim race track.

UNPROCESSED OIL FROM CHINESE TALLOWTREE SEEDS will run a stock diesel engine at the power level produced by conventional fuel, according to the "weed" tree's proponents. A native of China (where its waxy seeds are used to make candles), Sapium sebiferum is naturalized in this country from southern North Carolina to northern Florida and west to southeastern Texas .... A $1.1 MILLION PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM is now heating water and providing electricity at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport .... THE INNER WORKINGS OF THREE MILE ISLAND'S UNIT 2 REACTOR are little more than rubble, according to engineers who took their first looks into the core — more than three years after the incident — through a miniature TV camera lowered through inch-and-a-half holes .... SOLAR-CELL-POWERED RADIATION MONITORING STATIONS are located near nuclear plants throughout the Southeast to collect measurements in the event of "nonroutine releases" . . . . PAKISTAN HAS LAUNCHED A $5 MILLION PROGRAM designed to bring low-technology solar applications — primarily water distillers, heaters, and cookers — to some 20,000 villages.

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