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...technical challenge is relatively straightforward. The goal is to find substances and processes that can replace CFC-based systems without doing further harm to the stratosphere -- an endeavor that is well under way. In fact, it may turn out to be easier than anyone expected. Except for medical aerosols, some fire-fighting equipment and certain metal-cleaning applications, there are now effective substitutes for virtually every ozone- depleting chemical. Some cost quite a bit more, and others pose different, if less severe, environmental problems. But in a surprising number of cases, the new processes are actually cheaper and better than...
...what did we learn from this endeavor? That it's about time that men clue in to what women think is sexy. That requires two things: First, men need to realize that it takes two to make a thing go right. That is, men should think about sex and sexy on reciprocal terms, rather than in the Miltonic terms...
...essays that make up the 550 pages of The Architecture of Western Gardens. The subject could easily lend itself to the production of a glorified coffee-table ornament, but Mosser and Teyssot have compiled a serious and dizzyingly erudite work that investigates both traditional areas of scholarly endeavor and more novel topics...
...believed that he would succeed in this endeavor as well as did on the basketball court...
...magazine that would cover not only national affairs and foreign news but also religion, education, science, business and art. Among the first cover subjects were Joseph Conrad, Jack Dempsey and Ethel Barrymore. "TIME's conception of human nature . . . and TIME's value judgments run through all the fields of endeavor and all the categories of human aspirations and speculations," he said on the magazine's 40th anniversary. That philosophy is now more compelling than ever. Important social issues like date rape, the deterioration of the environment and the troubles of America's educational system are news; so are advances...