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Only Roy Reed's stories on the South consistently display a denser, more individualistic prose. His story on black families making a Christmas pilgrimage by train back to their old homes in the South is one of the best in the collection. Jon Nordheimer writes with a restrained power and simplicity, particularly in his forceful piece on the Congressional Medal of Honor veteran who was shot while robbing a grocery store...
...downzoning, which Harvard opposed, limits the University to construction no higher than 35 feet and no denser than 36 units an acre. The interim report on University expansion had listed the Agassiz land as a potential development site for new dormitories...
...structured by film-makers. In order to do this, however, he has had to make an unusually structured film, writing out every word of dialogue and thinking out each shot beforehand. Eustache's script repays careful attention even when it seems most banal, and his meaning gets denser as the film goes...
...earth's magnetic field. Now researchers at the Atomic Energy Commission's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have conceived perhaps the most imaginative scheme of all. They propose tapping what might well be the ultimate energy source: a "black hole"-a small celestial object that is trillions of times denser than ordinary matter...
...year-old Leverett Dam. There are plans for a new dam, but the old one can't be changed because the Science Museum is on top of it. The dam lets sea water leak into the Charles Basin, where it settles to the bottom because it is denser than fresh water, slowing down the water's circulation and helping to stratify the Basin. "Eventually," Noss said, "there's a layer so dense that normal river current just flows over it and it's not freshened, so to speak, by the fresh water...