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...energy Cassandras in both Europe and the U.S. warned that rapidly surging demands for oil would shortly outpace production and the then known supplies. But on both occasions, higher oil prices prompted new exploration and, eventually, enough new oil finds to turn the looming famine into a feast. Now the rising costs and sometimes uncertain supplies of OPEC crude, together with the decontrol of U.S. oil prices, are prompting yet another all-out search...
...spills by breaking down the crude into harmless protein and carbon dioxide. Says Chakrabarty, 42, now a researcher at the University of Illinois Medical Center: "You can make tons of these microorganisms in a matter of days." Nor, he says, would the bacteria pose any danger. After the feast, they would die for want...
...Commencement dinner featured nine brands of champagne, and the feast itself included lobster, pheasant, beef, and innumerable delicacies. This seems a substantial improvement from Charles Francis Adams' day. His remarks on the post-ceremony meal: "The usual scramble for a bad dinner took place and the usual psalm, after which we left as rapidly as possible." The custom of the Commencement dinner has faded from the scene for unknown reasons...
...prolific professor has produced more than 200 books, as well as a feast of science-fiction stories, articles, essays and verse. Yet according to Isaac Asimov, the repast is prologue. For many of the author's previous works have been written to earn a living; the latest, his 216th, is a labor of love. Its subject: the author's favorite, Isaac Asimov. Heavy enough to produce bursitis and double the price of standard scifi, the second installment of Asimov's autobiography appears formidable. It turns out to be even more entertaining than Volume I, In Memory...
...majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send out little silver-painted boats laden with flowers, perfumed soap and mirrors as offerings (if they sink, lemanjá has accepted the prayer). Pindell has given her own offering to this...