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...sunset people sat on the porches. As dusk deepened, the lightning bugs came out to be caught and bottled. One night I was allowed to stay up until the stars were in full command of the sky. A woman of great age was dying in the village, and it was considered fit to let the children stay abroad into the night. As four of us sat there we saw a shooting star and someone said, "Make a wish...
...Toward dusk, their small boats go whumping across lakes and bays, rooster-tailing on fierce twin-100 outboards. Caravans of eight-miles-to-the-gallon RVs start homing off the interstates, their occupants damply chilled in the air conditioning, bathed in Dolly Parton from the tape deck. In shopping malls, supermarkets the size of National Guard armories feel as cold as meat lockers; housewives in pedal pushers go Brrrr as they load their carts with food encased in a wealth of nonreturnable glass, metal and paper. They shake their heads as they pay what the check-out computer demands...
...cicadas behave as they do, but suspect that it may all be a defense against predators like birds. As Entomologist Chris Simon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook writes in Natural History, when the cicadas finally emerge, it is in the shadows of dusk. They also gain protection from their monstrous numbers-as many as 1.5 million per acre. Finally, since they appear only once every 13 or 17 years, nature may have endowed them with an unlikely mathematical defense. These are prime numbers, divisible only by themselves, and so parasites would have to live...
...hours and only 85 pitches later, Clifford won the dusk-cap of the twin bill, 8-2. To my knowledge Clifford is the first pitcher around these parts to win both ends of a doubleheader since Dooley Wolmack of the Yankees in 1968. Whatever, after Dartmouth took a 1-0 lead in the first, it was Clifford's ballgame. Harvard lashed out ten hits, five of them for extra bases, one of them a satellite, that being Bingham's two-run homer in the sixth that hit halfway up the roof of the fieldhouse behind the right field fence...
...concrete cooling towers looming eerily in the dusk on this week's cover belong to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant complex outside Harrisburg, Pa., site of the most serious accident in the relatively brief history of nuclear power. TIME dispatched three correspondents and a staff photographer to the stricken area, and their reports and pictures, along with files from our bureaus across the nation, were woven by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson into a story that not only reconstructs the accident in detail, but also assesses its consequences for the future of nuclear power and for U.S. energy...