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...wasn't the only instance of sexual inequality we encountered. We visited a neighborhood light-bulb and lantern factory, for instance, where the workers were all women earning considerably less than their husbands in state-administered factories. In both places people on the revolutionary committees assured us that equality of income would someday come, that before 1949 women hadn't been able to earn anything at all. People were also moderately apologetic, when we brought the subject up, about the disproportionately few women on nearly all the revolutionary committees. In one factory in Sian a woman Communist Youth League secretary...
LIGHTING. Cutting the lighting levels in nonresidential buildings to no more than is needed could save as much as 700,000 bbl. a day. For example, removing one lamp from three-bulb fluorescent fixtures has already reduced energy use significantly in many federal buildings...
...death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like moths to a light bulb. Sucking...
...biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close...
...with his occasional cross moods. Most important of all, the children think of Leachim as their friend, as well as a good teacher. All of which is quite an achievement for a robot with an oaken body and head, a meter-like mouth and blue light-bulb ears...