Word: channelized
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...spiritualistic cults like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast on new frequency...
...public works bill that Jimmy Carter vetoed was a hodgepodge of hundreds of energy-producing and water-control projects. Many were clearly commendable (and supported by the President), such as the creation of a second deep-draft channel to relieve Honolulu's congested harbor and an irrigation project in northern Washington to nourish some 10,000 acres of apple orchards. But the bill also contained some projects benefiting so few people that Carter criticized them as wasteful. Some examples...
...which "contouring rafts" are one of the most promising. Three rafts (see diagram) are hinged together by cylinders containing pistons; the flexing of the hinges in the waves forces the pistons to pump water, turning turbines that produce electricity. A small prototype string of rafts in the English Channel now produces a mere 1 kw., but its designer, Sir Christopher Cockerell, who also invented the Hovercraft, says that a cluster of 300 larger rafts could generate as much energy as a big conventional power station...
...Gerald Durrell can help it. The zoologist has long maintained a sanctuary for endangered species on the English Channel Island of Jersey and has scoured the world to collect threatened birds, mammals and reptiles. In his latest book, he wittily describes his efforts to help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness...
...employee of WBZ (Channel 4) television, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "I got a call at about 11 a.m. from some guy who sounded like he was not entirely serious. The caller said that a number of Viet Nam veterans were angry about the way they were treated at the Coop. He said that a bomb was going to go off at the Coop, but he could not decide when...