Chrome

The home of the '90s has to play as many roles as the people who inhabit it. And with men and women role-surfing through their days, switching from professional to parent, from nurse to chef, that's saying a lot."People are viewing their home as their oasis, their spa, their entertainment center," said Lisa Casey Weiss, a New York-based lifestyle consultant to the National Housewares Manufacturers Association, which sponsored the recent 100th International Housewares Show in Chicago. "Their home is everything."

Police logScaggsville: 8500 block of Pineway Drive: A burglar removed two screws from a storage shed's door latch between Friday and Sunday, entered and took three Goodyear tires and three chrome wheels, police said.Pub Date: 3/07/96

A little-known Baltimore Quaker geologist, whose passion for some greenish-black rocks off the Falls Road enabled him to become the founder of the American chromium industry, is being inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame tomorrow. The belated honors go to Isaac Tyson Jr., whose bronze plaque calls him the "Renaissance man of the early U.S. minerals and chemical industries.""The mining industry is so dominated by the West, it is unusual for an Easterner to get some recognition," said Harald B. (Johnny)

OXFORD, Pa. -- A glass bottle is the only vessel Joseph Beckenstrater ever has deemed worthy of the creamy yield from his family farm.The half-gallon jugs catch the eye of shoppers in the gourmet and health food stores of Baltimore, where Chrome Dairy dominates the specialty milk market. And clear glass reveals something else that sets Chrome apart -- the milk is not homogenized, so the cream sits on top. You have to shake this stuff before you pour, or you'll get a rich clump in the first serving.

An Associated Press caption on a picture used in The Sun Aug. 17 incorrectly said molten metal running from a car destroyed by fire was chrome. The AP since then quoted firefighters as saying it was battery lead or aluminum, not chrome.The Sun regrets the errors.

The owner of one of the last undeveloped parcels along Baltimore's downtown waterfront moved closer yesterday to making it a vibrant link between the Inner Harbor and Fells Point.Representatives of Allied Signal Inc. joined with Baltimore City Council members and neighborhood leaders to introduce legislation that would allow the company's former chrome processing plant to be transformed into a waterfront community."We've reached a significant milestone in . . . introducing ordinances that will enable development of this site," said Allied Signal senior project manager William R. Blank.

What shape room is easiest for creating a comfortable interior design? Every time I'm asked that question -- and I'm asked it frequently -- I explain that there are just too many variables to permit a simple answer.The opposite question, conversely, isn't nearly so hard to answer. I can say with some certainty that an elongated room is the most difficult shape to design.But even that assertion needs to be tempered. This sort of long and narrow space can be very suitable for a multi-functional design, especially when it's possible to divide the various functions among specific areas.

* Ellicott City: 8300 block of Montgomery Run Road: Four chrome trim tire rims valued at $250 were stolen from a 1989 Chevrolet truck between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday.4800 block of Dorsey Hall Drive: A $350 tailgate was stolen from a 1991 Isuzu truck between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.3200 block of Corporate Court: Someone forced open a door at The Kids Place between 6:15 p.m. Wednesday and 6:45 a.m. Thursday. Nothing was taken.

The acreage around the former chrome plant at the Inner Harbor should be developed, in the opinion of 120 of 185 callers to SUNDIAL (64 percent). The other 65 (35 percent) say it should not be developed.Similarly, 117 of 183 callers (63 percent) say the site should be developed with appropriate health warnings, but 66 callers (36 percent) say it should not be developed even with such warnings.

There were few mourners present when one of the harbor' oldest landmarks dropped out of sight this fall.The Block Street chemical works of Allied Chemical was a relic of an industrial Baltimore ruled by factory whistles calling people to work at 7 a.m.The huge metal-sided plant, once the center of a thriving chrome trade, was taken apart beam by beam, wall by wall. Nearly 150 years of chrome discharges had made the place an environmental hazard. The demolition was executed very carefully so that aged chrome dust was not sent across the harbor.

Of course, we all know who to cheer for when David challenges Goliath. But what happens when Goliath is staring down, say, a worldwide corporation that makes tens of billions of dollars a year? In other words, whom do you root for in Microsoft vs. Google? Perhaps, at this point, we should simply cheer that there's any competition at all. Through the years, it's become easy to mistrust Microsoft, a company that began as an upstart itself but now boasts a global market (an estimated 90 percent of the world's computers run on Windows)

Shortly after Google Inc. unveiled Chrome, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the new Web browser "represents some of the best Google can do." He encouraged everyone to try it. But not many people are. Chrome gained market share within the first 24 hours of its release Sept. 2, but since then, it has given back much of those small gains to the leaders, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. That's according to Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of marketing and strategic alliances at Internet measurement firm Net Applications.

BAGHDAD -- The midnight run into the combat zone, in a hard-used Air Force C-130 turboprop built during the Kennedy administration, was typical in one respect: Just as it touched down with a belly crammed with combat-loaded troops, one of its four engines flamed out and went dead. That was after the flight computer blew out, a radar malfunctioned, the navigator's headset stopped working so he couldn't hear anything, and the air conditioner failed. That spiked the temperature well over 110 degrees, and as the flight known as Chrome 31 bucked and heaved on final approach through gusty crosswinds, first one and then another soldier became violently ill. "OK, I am about out of troubleshooting options," declared Chrome 31's exasperated flight engineer, 28-year-old Staff Sgt. David Baker, whose job is to keep things working.

Attorney Peter Angelos said yesterday that Maryland should compel Honeywell International to clean up more than a half-dozen chrome waste dumps around Baltimore's harbor - and said he's willing to fight a legal battle to force the issue. Angelos, who built a reputation with asbestos and tobacco litigation, is representing the community group Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) in an attempt to require the New Jersey-based manufacturing company to remove chromium beneath the Dundalk Marine Terminal and elsewhere.

NATIONAL Intelligence overhaul stalled Congressional leaders expressed hope yesterday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked an overhaul of the nation's intelligence agencies. Much depends on whether President Bush is more active in bringing his political allies in line, they said. [Page 3a Congress urged to aid Amtrak The Transportation Department's inspector general says Congress must do more to prevent a major disruption in Amtrak service.

The home of the '90s has to play as many roles as the people who inhabit it. And with men and women role-surfing through their days, switching from professional to parent, from nurse to chef, that's saying a lot."People are viewing their home as their oasis, their spa, their entertainment center," said Lisa Casey Weiss, a New York-based lifestyle consultant to the National Housewares Manufacturers Association, which sponsored the recent 100th International Housewares Show in Chicago. "Their home is everything."

A little-known Baltimore Quaker geologist, whose passion for some greenish-black rocks off the Falls Road enabled him to become the founder of the American chromium industry, is being inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame tomorrow. The belated honors go to Isaac Tyson Jr., whose bronze plaque calls him the "Renaissance man of the early U.S. minerals and chemical industries.""The mining industry is so dominated by the West, it is unusual for an Easterner to get some recognition," said Harald B. (Johnny)

Police logScaggsville: 8500 block of Pineway Drive: A burglar removed two screws from a storage shed's door latch between Friday and Sunday, entered and took three Goodyear tires and three chrome wheels, police said.Pub Date: 3/07/96

OXFORD, Pa. -- A glass bottle is the only vessel Joseph Beckenstrater ever has deemed worthy of the creamy yield from his family farm.The half-gallon jugs catch the eye of shoppers in the gourmet and health food stores of Baltimore, where Chrome Dairy dominates the specialty milk market. And clear glass reveals something else that sets Chrome apart -- the milk is not homogenized, so the cream sits on top. You have to shake this stuff before you pour, or you'll get a rich clump in the first serving.

An Associated Press caption on a picture used in The Sun Aug. 17 incorrectly said molten metal running from a car destroyed by fire was chrome. The AP since then quoted firefighters as saying it was battery lead or aluminum, not chrome.The Sun regrets the errors.