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...Brookline, Mass., discovered that auto exhaust and industrial fumes create a new atmospheric phenomenon-a layer of "dead sky" composed of tiny, concentrated particles. Unmoved by either wind or rain, the ever thickening mass of filth hovers over Boston-and presumably other cities. The stagnant cloud has a faint silver lining: while making Boston's rain heavier, it will divert major storms from the city. The researchers do not yet know the dead sky's effect on human health...
...White's other books, the line between human and animal is very faint. Louis befriends a small boy, Sam, who takes the swan to his school in Montana to learn how to read and write. ("If I can teach a bird to write," says Mrs. Hammerbotham, first grade teacher, "it'll be big news all over the Sweet Grass country. I'll get my picture in Life magazine. I'll be famous...
...pants which clung to his body. His boots and a handkerchief-tie around his neck were white. The air filled with flowers and other objects of adoration being thrown to him. He picked up some and put them on his microphone while the girls who threw them tried to faint in the aisles...
...Sensibility" is the word of faint praise that customarily damns women novelists. Yes, they do manage their little nuances so well-those pale violet insights into rather unimportant feelings. Nice sense of humor, too-this side of real bite, though. Still, no man can match them at describing parties-if that's what one really wants in a story. Will women writers, in other words, ever live down one of the world's most overanthologized short stories, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party! Sensibility incarnate...
...Japanese call the foul brown sludge hedoro, combining the words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...