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...clockwise in the Southern), the rate of evaporation gradually increases. As the water vapor rises from the sea, it cools, condenses and releases enormous amounts of heat into the atmosphere. The heat, in turn, causes more evaporation and condensation, further fueling the brewing storm like the updraft in a chimney. As the winds build and the tropical storm edges away from its birthplace, it releases enormous stores of heat. In a full-fledged hurricane, which has winds of 75 m.p.h. or more, as much energy may be released in a single day as by the detonation of 400 20-megaton...
...Supreme Court decision last June requiring reporters to testify before grand juries, Justice Byron White dropped a now much-referred-to quotation from Jeremy Bentham: "Were the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord High Chancellor to be passing by in the same coach while a chimney sweeper and a barrow-woman were in dispute about a halfpennyworth of apples, and the chimney sweeper or the barrow-woman were to think proper to call upon them for their evidence, could they refuse it? No, most certainly...
...door neighbor, Haruji Kenmoto, 65, estimates that engai damage cost him $6,000 last year. "Sometimes they even come indoors and bare their teeth at the children," he says. "It scares the daylights out of them." One macaque climbed up on Kenmoto's roof and pushed at his chimney until it broke...
Survival Shelf. The splendid set pieces of the book explain the intricate classic art of building a log cabin, notch by hand-hewn notch, the principles of stone chimney construction, the shingles split from the white oak log with wedges, go-devil, maul and froe. And how to feed up, slaughter, dress out, pepper cure, smoke, cook and eat a hog, with two opinions about what one does with the ears, which are gristly. Not to mention a dissertation on moonshining as a fine art-by men who practiced it well...
...people outside the Administration like it. Industrialists claim that there is no way to curb emissions of sulfur oxides at a reasonable cost. Conservation groups, on the other hand, argue that the proposed tax is too low to force industry to develop improved "scrubbers" to remove sulfur from chimney gases. By their reckoning, it costs 190 for present devices to remove a pound of sulfur from fumes, while the proposed tax is only 100 to 150 per pound. As a result, they fear that industry would pay the tax rather than clean the fumes, and that it would build...