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...produce or sustain life as we know it are also absent. The presence of unoxidized iron on the moon-totally absent on earth-indicates that the moon has had negligible amounts of free oxygen if any at all. The analyses of the lunar rocks gives a concentration of carbon of 30 to 300 parts per million yhile earth rocks normally contain 100 times that much carbon...
Most of the lunar carbon appears to be in the form of gas bubbles-mostly carbon monoxide-inside the tiny glass beads. The samples also contain some methane and ethane-simple saturated hydrocarbons-which might be native to the moon. More complex hydrocarbons are concentrated in earth rocks at about 100 parts per million but were undetectable in the lunar rocks to an accuracy of one part per billion...
...known since 1839. Pratt & Whitney also designed the fuel cells used in Apollo flights. But the specific and well-financed proposal to employ them en masse is new. For environmentalists, Powercel would deliver power with a plus: the only waste products of its chemical reaction are harmless water vapor, carbon dioxide, and a little heat. Its on-site use would eliminate unsightly power lines as well as the complex network of power plants, substations and generators...
Atypical Situation. Mannheim, commanded by Major Harry Crawford, houses 300 of the 425 G.I. prisoners in Europe and is almost a carbon copy of the worst civilian prison facilities in the U.S. Guarded by four watchtowers with spotlights, the stark brick structure is surrounded by two 7-ft.-high rows of barbed wire. Few if any prisoners at Mannheim are rehabilitated. Homosexuality is rampant and drugs abound. Tension between white and black inmates is so bad that guards simply let each group run its part of the jungle. Says one white inmate: "You can survive if you stay away from...
...three leading characters are a bitter, nearly mad mother and her two tormented daughters; its plot concerns a science-class experiment with radiation on marigolds by one of the daughters. The underlying concept occurred to Zindel while he was preparing a class lecture. "I remember thinking that all carbon atoms on earth had to come from the sun," he says. "The idea of being linked to the universe by these atoms, which really don't die, gave me a feeling of meaning." The mother was his own, he says, "in nightmarish exaggeration...