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Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
...flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface and insulated from solar heat. The gradual melting and vaporization of this ice, which would leave voids beneath the surface, may account for the cave-ins visible in moon-probe photographs...
...American Udall, no species - 14 fewer than 78 mammals, native 36 birds, six reptiles and 22 varieties of fish - are on the brink of vanishing from the earth forever. In almost every case, their deadly enemy is man. The Indiana bat, for instance, is in danger because the caves in which it lives have become tourist attractions and because of acts of vicious vandalism (two boys killed 10,000 in Carter Cave, Kentucky, pulling them off the ceiling and trampling them to death). The Florida alligators are on the decline because of com mercial poachers; the Atlantic sturgeon because...
Though the proliferation of jukeboxes and discotheques has winnowed the ranks of the cocktail pianists since their heyday in the 1950s, most U.S. cities have at least one velvet-lined cave where night-lifers go to swig and sway to their favorite mood merchants. Among the best of them...
More important, perhaps, Taylor challenges the view that the bombing may stiffen rather than soften Hanoi's will to continue fighting. Conceding that Germany and Japan did not cave in under massive aerial attacks during World War II, he points out that U.S. and Allied demands for unconditional surrender left them without "an escape hatch. They had no alternative but to stand and take it." In Viet Nam, by contrast, the U.S. is making no such demand, instead is assuring the Northerners that "a better life awaits them if they cease an aggressive war which offers them nothing...