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...bake, and if I can get free room and board for doing something I like, it’s the perfect deal,” Patino says. “It’s a wonderful way to live in Cambridge for no rent,” Catarina A. Castruccio-Prince ’01 agrees. Because of the low time commitment, Quincy’s elves are free to pursue other jobs and activities. Kelly C. Seary ’01 works in research labs, while Castruccio-Prince works for the EF educational touring company. Patino is working...
...Catarina Castruccio-Prince ’01 said she also had problems with the New Quincy elevator during the first week of classes this year...
...days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...
...Castruccio's lunar power plant (which he calls an "electron farm") is nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...
According to Dr. Castruccio, a one-acre electron farm will produce 1,200 kilowatts, enough to run 20,000 60-watt light bulbs. The plant will weigh 1.7 Ibs. per kw. and cost (on earth) $3.50 per kw. Since the farm can have any desired acreage, Dr. Castruccio feels that power supply should not be a principal problem for a lunar colony...