Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Damascus, he earned a Ph.D. in international law from the Sorbonne. In the early 1950s he served on the U.N. relief agency for Palestine refugees and argued in the U.N. for their repatriation and compensation. In private life, he is a devotee of classical music and a noted art collector...
Unlike some other solar energy schemes, the ponds can operate year round, on cloudy days as well as sunny ones, even at night. They are also cheap, consisting essentially of a sheltered, shallow body of salt water that acts as a solar collector, plus a heat-exchanging system and turbogenerator. The pond's operating principle is simple. When sunlight strikes a fresh-water pond, it heats the water and stirs up convection currents; cooler water sinks to the bottom while warmer water rises to the surface, where its heat quickly escapes into the atmosphere. In a solar pond, these...
...architect of Israel's solar pond program, notes, for instance, that surfaces of large solar ponds must be crisscrossed with plastic baffles. These gridlike barriers prevent winds from churning up the water, which would mix the critical layers and diminish the pond's effectiveness as a heat collector. But Israeli officials, who hope to build a five-megawatt pond within two years, are confident that the difficulties in scaling up the ponds can be overcome. They are thinking of a whole network of solar ponds bordering the Dead Sea that could fill as much as a third...
...ties her up and rapes her-gently. That forced-sex fantasy, or something like it, is one of the most common sexual daydreams of American women. Masters and Johnson say it is second only to fantasizing about sex with a different partner. Author Nancy Friday, the diligent collector of female fantasies (My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers) says it is second to none...
...Manhattan's Empire Diamond & Gold Buying Service, where the queues form two hours before the store opens, almost everything goes to the smelter. Says Owner Jack Brod, who bought a Spanish-American War medal for its weight and paid only $75: "We might get more from a collector, but it's not worth looking for one or waiting. We'll melt...