T R E C - 7 I n t e r a c t i v e T r a c k 11. September 1998 Topic | | Instance# | | | | Instance gloss | | | 352i 1 environmental impact 352i 2 financing of high-speed rail line 352i 3 cost of additional safety standards 352i 4 merger (rationalization) of ferry companies 352i 5 location/relocation of industries because of Chunnel 352i 6 loss of Japanese investors to europe 352i 7 changes in real estate market 352i 8 increased quick visits to France 352i 9 competition among railway companies 352i 10 increased/improved rail freight/parcel/passenger service with Europe 352i 11 improved/harmed local economies because of rail lines 352i 12 improved rail service (freight or passenger) within the UK 352i 13 changes in Keny economy/employment 352i 14 increase chance for EC grants 352i 15 Chunnel impact on privitization of railroads 352i 16 improvements in ferry/air services 352i 17 diseases entering UK 352i 18 increased terrorism in UK 352i 19 more drugs in UK 352i 20 changes in prices to cross Channel 352i 21 creation of British tunnel exports 352i 22 Brits driving on the Continent (esp. own cars) 352i 23 strengthen British links to EU and single market 352i 24 improved British-French relationship 352i 25 increased tourism anywhere on British island 352i 26 armed police in Britain 352i 27 increased use of international shipments 352i 28 removes psychological barrier of Channel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 353i 1 mining prospection 353i 2 oil resources 353i 3 rhodium exploration 353i 4 ozone hole / upper atmosphere 353i 5 greenhouse effect 353i 6 measuring chemicals in the atmosphere 353i 7 analysis of toxic waste 353i 8 whale scientific research 353i 9 antarctic sonar mapping 353i 10 ice studies 353i 11 climate studies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 357i 1 extended territorial waters - delineation of Aegean continental shelf: Grc - TUrk 357i 2 oil exploration / "political" or "adm" boundary may require intl. jurisdiction: Egypt - Sudan 357i 3 Kurile islands: Russ - Jap 357i 4 Falkland islands: Falkland - Chile 357i 5 St.Pierre & Miguelon: Canada - France 357i 6 St.Kilda: U.K. - Ireland 357i 7 Spratly, So. China Sea: V.N., China, Phil, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei 357i 8 Faroe islands: U.K. - Denmark 357i 9 Bahrain - Qatar 357i 10 United Arab Emirates - Iran 357i 11 So. Georgia & So Sandwich Islands: U.K., Argentina 357i 12 Rockall island: U.K., Iceland, Denmark 357i 13 Chistmas island: Indonesia - Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 362i 1 slaves shipped and traded in America 362i 2 slaves (men, women, & children) traded for clothes, weapons, & gold 362i 3 smuggling Jews into Switzerland 362i 4 parents encouraged to smuggle children 362i 5 gangs smuggled in East Europeans to Romania for money 362i 6 Chinese smuggled to U.S. 362i 7 Romanians smuggled to Germany 362i 8 illegal aliens smuggled to U.S. 362i 9 organized crime smuggles imigrants 362i 10 illegal imigrants smuggled to Italy 362i 11 couple smuggle baby out of Romania 362i 12 smuggling Cuban to U.S. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 365i 1 generalization: global climate upset, normal weather pattern upsets 365i 2 lessen crop output 365i 3 rising water temperatures in the Pacific 365i 4 drought across Asia, South Pacific 365i 5 weaker Indian monsoon 365i 6 dryness in South America 365i 7 drought in S. Africa 365i 8 wetness from Arizona north to Idaho (Great Bassin) 365i 9 floods in Texas 365i 10 Gulf coast rainfall increase 365i 11 Gulf coast below normal temperature 365i 12 upsetting Jet Stream 365i 13 keeping cold air far north of Midwest, making it warmer 365i 14 dryer Northwest 365i 15 dryer Ohio Valley 365i 16 commodity market gyrations 365i 17 damaged Peruvian fishing 365i 18 grain shortages 365i 19 electricity shortage due to lack of water for hydroelectric plants 365i 20 spreads drought and famine 365i 21 heavy rains & flooding in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador 365i 22 Economic costs: reduction in GNP growth, personal bankruptcies 365i 23 new political alliances 365i 24 good fishing off Peru in years following El Nino --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 366i 1 ore processing: leaching out metals in mining (gold, zinc, lead, copper) 366i 2 commodity to be recovered from waste or manufactured and sold 366i 3 chemical weapons 366i 4 synthetic fibers 366i 5 suicide agent 366i 6 in fishing 366i 7 metal coating/galvanizing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 387i 1 underground repository 387i 2 encased in concrete 387i 3 encased in steel 387i 4 firing into deep space 387i 5 aluminum-based "super-cement" 387i 6 recycling or reprocessing of plutonium from spend nuclear fuels 387i 7 vitrification of waste and storage in steel containers (castor containers) 387i 8 molecular recognition technology - ligands 387i 9 pollux containers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 392i 1 'clean room' applications in healthcare & precision engineering 392i 2 spot-welding robotics 392i 3 controlling inventory - storage devices 392i 4 pipe-laying robots 392i 5 talking robot 392i 6 robots for loading & unloading memory tapes 392i 7 make & test materials with 15k diferent chemical compositions 392i 8 robot [telephone] operators 392i 9 robot cranes 392i 10 cutting & welding robots 392i 11 robots used in engine assembly 392i 12 paint spraying 392i 13 dismount auto doors & tailgates 392i 14 picks up car cockpit and inserts it thru door 392i 15 bolts auto cockpit to auto body 392i 16 applying adhesive sealants (cars) 392i 17 fitting autoglas into body aperture 392i 18 inserts seats into auto body 392i 19 core placing for casting engines 392i 20 robot enables disabled people to eat unaided 392i 21 robotic arm retrieves chemical drums underwater 392i 22 spraying potassium permanganate onto garments 392i 23 aply metallic paints to parts for a computer 392i 24 laser welding by robot 392i 25 water-jet cutting robots 392i 26 robot guides oil well equipment into place underwater 392i 27 simultaneous mounting & fastening of bolts in car suspension & engines 392i 28 T.I.M.E. welding followed by flame cutting in 1 continuous cycle 392i 29 system attaches & tightens 5 screens simultaneously on vehicle wheel 392i 30 inspect, assemble & test printed circuit boards 392i 31 medical robot helping with human surgery 392i 32 robot arm retrieves telescoppe in space 392i 33 construction robots spraying fireproofing 392i 34 construction robots finishing concrete floors 392i 35 robots unload boxes, pack boxes, & stack boxes (packaging and palletising) 392i 36 robot locates clone colonies, selects healthy ones & moves cells to dishes for growth & analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------