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...accounts the kind of popular, high-energy teacher who could get kids to come to a 7 a.m. class. He took his class canoeing in the Okefenokee Swamp or on field trips to Copper Hill, which he called "a famous industrial-pollution site in Chattanooga." Gingrich's effort to build such a large student following had a pragmatic side to it--a number of his students eventually became the ground troops in his campaigns for Congress...
...economic potential is equally enormous. Majestically swirling ocean currents influence much of the world's weather patterns; figuring out how they operate could save trillions of dollars in weather-related disasters. The oceans also have vast reserves of commercially valuable minerals, including nickel, iron, manganese, copper and cobalt. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are already analyzing deep-sea bacteria, fish and marine plants looking for substances that they might someday turn into miracle drugs. Says Bruce Robison, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California: "I can guarantee you that the discoveries beneficial to mankind will far outweigh those...
...Faithful does. Seawater percolates down through cracks in the crust, getting progressively hotter. It doesn't boil, despite temperatures reaching up to 400 degrees C, because it is under terrific pressure. Finally, the hot water gushes back up in murky clouds that cool rapidly, dumping dissolved minerals, including zinc, copper, iron, sulfur compounds and silica, onto the ocean floor. The material hardens into chimneys, known as "black smokers" (one, nicknamed Godzilla, towers 148 ft. above the bottom...
...Cosmodrome, furthermore, is deteriorating rapidly from the harsh desert climate, from neglect and from outright theft and vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts...
...shingled cottage in Sausalito a block from San Francisco Bay, Allende surrounds herself with mementos: Paula's baby shoes, encased in copper; photographs of her, framed in silver; the earthen jar that contains Paula's ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses...