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abundance;cisco’s Tenderloin district or out in the Rox-bury section of Boston, the problems of homelessness and hunger are perennial.It’s charity that tends to be seasonal, a sort of national belch of philanthropy before the , long winter hibernation settles in.“It’s like, come Thanksgiv-ing, we go ‘oh yeah’ and think to ) make the donations and do the vol-^ unteering,” said Catherine Jestice,who worked at last year’s churchI feast.“You’ll get like 25 volunteers for Thanksgiving dinner. It can get ridiculous,’’ said Margaret Platt, who with Jestice and others HJ works all year at Holy Trinity’shomeless shelter. “But then in the middle of January, when it’s cold and people really need a hot meal,outnumbered the homeless 3-to-1.Later he stopped by a center at 114th Street near Riverside Park for a little late-aftemoon snack: more turkey. Finally, it was on to another shelter near his Harlem apartment for, yes, still more turkey.He took home a doggy bag stuffed with so much turkey that even his Doberman couldn’t finish it. “He was looking at me like, ‘What’s all this today? I never eat like this,’’’ laughed Scott, who has been unemployed since breaking up with his wife a few years ago.“It’s a spirit thing. People figure they haven’t done anything all year, so they give a few hours or a turkey or something,” Scott said. “Then when they sit down with their family and their dinner with all the fixings, they aren’t looking at it all and feeling guilty.”There is perhaps a degree of hypocrisy in this annual dance. But William Damon, co-author of the newI mh yy1! V ^ book “SomeI II / I I [ f 1 Do Care: Con-I 1/ I %| | temporaryW I 1/ I ll T Lives of MoralI I W III II Commitment,”f can live with it.Whateverthe motivation, each year a percentage of good Samaritans are moved to begin what will turn out to be a long-term commitment to helping others. And, no matter how small, it is a step forward.“Even if it’s contained in a sea of self-interest ... guilt is just the moral emotion that reminds us of our obligations. There’s nothingwrong with doing something for that reason,”said Damon, a developmental psychologist andSee HUNGER, Page 4By LESLIE DREYFOUS AP National WriterNEW YORK — There were steaming mounds of stuffing, two huge tom turkeys well-basted and brown, acorn squash smothered in butter, yminestrone soup, three-bean r—sr^tsalad and several kinds of Iwho had spent ternoon downkitchen agreed H-Jv*it was quite amen began ar-was having an yQ yV-versation with Qhimself, another shed angry tears. Otherwise, the group plunked down around the collapsible banquet tables was decidedly impassive.Argh,” a gray-faced guy man groaned to the fellow on his left. “This is my THIRD turkey dinner today.”On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, as on Chicago’s South Side or down in San Franno one’s around.’’James Scott knows the annual giving glut. A little guiltily, he admits to attending three dinners last year. “You didn’t even have to get up with volunteers waiting on you hand and foot, giving you pie, pouring you water,” he said Tuesday.First it was all-you-can-eat at 88th Streetand Amsterdam Avenue. 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T • ft • * *.. a I • *, a ft • *. . • • *_ a • • * . a * • , a * • *. , « • * *, . a a a , , a ft • , a a a a , a a a a a a aComment afjr .2 RecordsBusiness. •• • • *■ 5-.-0 o m io S: .■*»«-*»***■•»»• * *.* 8f.vEntertainment « *« mm 13Classified iSiBender and his chief associate in the BenChem project, civil engineer Bill Stein, said the primary elements used are “reagents that were found in, on or around the coal, or easily derived from the coal.”These reagents are the key to fine-tuning current coal-refinement methods used in the industry, Bender said, likening his reagents to the detergent in a laundromat.“What has happened in the whole industry — in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, wherever you go — they have developed the best washer technology, and they have not added any detergent,” he said. “If you wash clothes without any detergent in the world’s best washing machine, you get what you get, and this is what has been happening in the coalindustry.”At least one set of results from the eight large-scale tests Bender has run—in coal processing plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio—seem to bear up that assertion.A report provided by BenChem stated that in a three-hour test at the Peabody Federal No. 2 Plant in Fairview, W. Va. in 1989, the sulfur reduction in the 3,000 tons of coal treated with BenChem reagents was more than twice what the plant normally achieved.But a researcher at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale said although he had not heard of Bender’s tests, he was skeptical of his claim to increase sulfur elimination.“I’ve heard of people claiming that, but nothing’s ever really come out in a successful application,” said Rick Honaker, an assistant professor of mining engineering.‘The problem is you have two different forms of sulfur you have to worry about, organic and pyritic,” Honaker said. “You can get maybe 50 to 60 percent rejection with the pyritic sulfur, but even if you could remove it 100 percent, you’re left with the organic sulfur, which is still too high to meet EPA regulations (for burning).”One report from the BenChem group states that the cost of the reagents add only $1.50 per ton to the expense of refining, but without knowing the exact chemicals the BenChem process uses, Honaker said it is impossible to test the truth of that claim.“The only way you can remove organic sulfur is chemically, and I haven’t seen a chemical process at this point in time that’s economical to use,” he said.But BenChem associates insist the process can be used cheaply and effectively without extreme modifications in refinement machin-If valid, such a process could have far-reaching implications for the world coal and agricultural markets—and for sulfur-rich Southern Illinois coal, it could mean a leg up in competition with the low-sulfur western coals that have dominated the U.S. market in recent years.“I’ve briefly tested your Illinois No. 6 coal out there, and I had good results on that testing,” said Bender, a private, part-time researcher who has labored on coal beneficia-tion for the better part of 13 years and holds two patents on coal-cleaning methods.“In the past I had kept away from very hard coals such as anthracite,” Bender said, “but within the last year we’ve found that by modifying the reagents, we can have some success with that also.”But Bender and his associates are intentionally vague when quizzed on the specific ingredients of the reagents used in what they call the “BenChem process.”“We have been using surface agents to do the activation,” said Bender, an environmental chemistry consultant who also is a doctor of dentistry. “We have been using ammonium salts and ammonium compounds, although I have gone on to other types of materials since then.”eiy, and can eliminate huge amounts of coal-related waste.In one facet of the Bender vision, the gob piles dotting Coal Country could be significantly shrunk by treatment with the process.“Most coal gob heaps are anywhere from 20 to as high as 40 percent coal,” said BenChem Vice President of Engineering Bill Stein. “First off, we would remove the coal. Then the rest of it would go on through processing, and if there’s enough gravel, than that could be segregated off and used to line ditches, or maybe used for drainage beds or road base. Then the remainder would be put into fertilizer form.“You would probably get rid of, conservatively, 80-plus percent of this reject material,” Stein said.Although unable to vouch for Stein’s predicted results, Honaker said steps certainly must be taken to cut coal waste drastically.sounds too good to be true, but there’s definitely a need to eliminate the waste that we have and at least reduce the amount of the waste that we’re creating today,” he said. There’s a definite need for that type of process.”State agrees not to seek deathBy NICK MARIANO Staff WriterA 19-year-old man who confessed to aiming and shooting a Carrier Mills resident pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to first-degree murder in agreement with the state that it does not seek the death penalty against him.Joe W. Jordan, of Bald Knob, Ark., also entered a plea of guilty in the First Circuit Court in Saline County to theft of an automobile, a 1989 Ford Mustang owned by murder victim Ralph Thompson.The Saline County Sheriffs Department discovered Thompson’s body Aug. 13, two days after he was shot three times and killed. His body was found covered in a quilt about 20 to 30 feet away from his home at 305 Smith Road. The car was discovered missing at that time as well.When the sheriff’s department found out in cooperation with the Department of Criminal Investigation that Jordan may have left the state, it released an all-points-bul-letin for Jordan on a warrant for theft.He was arrested a week and a half later on Aug. 21 in Austin,Nev.According to State’s AttorneyRod Wolf, Jordan agreed to an open plea with the state if the state wouldnot seek the death penalty.First-degree murder carries a possible sentence of 20 to 60 years imprisonment. However, he may face a life sentence if Wolf can show other aggravating factors were involved, such as the killing was premeditated. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled by the court.Wolf said he is waiting until he reviews the pre-sentencing investigation report before he determines how many years he will seek against Jordan.Wolf told the court that he would have entered into evidence three confessions made by Jordan, one in Nevada, after his arrest if the case had gone to trial. The confessions taken here were video taped at the courthouse in which Jordan admitted to shooting Thompson with a .16 gauge shot gauge and then to shooting a 30-30 rifle twice, the second time by taking aim, which was the shot that killed Thompson, according to previous reports.He also confessed to taking the keys to the Mustang from Thompson’s pocket that day, according to Wolf. 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In Bender’s model, they become fertilizer.
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