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...native lands. The demonstration occurred at Mt. Taylor, N.M., a sacred mountain to local natives and the site of a Gulf Oil-owned underground uranium mine--the deepest of its kind in the world. Beyond the implications of bringing 100 million pounds of uranium from deep within the earth to the surface, the people view this mine as an act of sacrilege and desecration...
...first, laughs Woods Hole Biologist J. Frederick Grassle, "we didn't believe it." But since that original bit of serendipity, during Alvin's probings of the earth's great undersea rift zones, scientists have convinced themselves the spectacular pink giants are no joke. Indeed, the odd creatures have, so to speak, opened a whole new can of worms...
Last week not much writing was being done. His home phonewhere his movie will play and found some of them wanting: new screens and projectors had to be ordered to "keep Manhattan from looking like The Day the Earth Blew Up." Equally unsatisfactory was the typeface in a full-page Sunday New York Times ad for the film: a new mock-up awaited his inspection. The most annoying problem was the Motion Picture Association's decision to slap Manhattan with an R rating because of a few four-letter words. Allen was not pleased: "People say that the industry...
...efficiency of cells is also rising. Ten years ago, they could convert to electricity only 2% of the theoretical average 100 watts of the sun's energy that falls on a square foot of earth; now they can convert 16%. To intensify the sun's rays, the Los Angeles project would use parabolic and elliptical cells instead of flat ones. Arco Solar and other companies including Exxon, Mobil and Shell are working in intense rivalry and secrecy on such matters as improving storage batteries, finding better materials to substitute for silicon and even mass-producing flat "ribbons" of silicon...
...Hong Kong-born multimillionaire, who is negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province. As he gazes out at Hong Kong's beautiful harbor, he asks: "Is there any place on earth where the future looks brighter than here...