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...students in six Jefferson County schools. Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much smaller world average. Most students take to heart what they learn. Diane Molzahn, 13, reports that her family have "cut the use of most small appliances and have begun washing dishes...
...shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...
...those who think gas deregulation would result in unchanged or even lower prices--be warned. From 1972 to 1977 the cost of gas per 1000 cubic feet (mcf) for LoVaca's 400 clients, including both industries and cities, soared from 36 cents to $2.05. In Crystal City where the average annual per capita income is $1600, the cost of a hot shower, a warm house, and gas-cooked food was just too high...
...only thing snow may not be is in finitely variable. One would like to be lieve that no two snowflakes are identical. But, notes Ruth Kirk, there are no physical rules that should prevent nature from duplicating itself, and there are more than half a million snowflakes in each cubic foot of snow. Scientists may not have found two flakes that are exactly alike. But then, they really haven't looked at that many...
...years trying to keep track of the weather. The U.S. and other nations have created an international apparatus that maintains some 100.000 stations to check the weather round the clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 4 billion cubic miles of the atmosphere...