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...longer successfully defend the knobbly silver ewer merely by putting a boat in the water. At week's end the best-of-seven series was tied 3-3 between the red-hulled American defender Liberty and Australia II. In the process, the Aussies had proved themselves every fighting inch the equals of the Americans. It has been the greatest America's Cup challenge in history...
...perhaps as soon as December), the crane's silhouette will stretch skyward from the Acropolis, dwarfing the monuments. Its first task: setting straight a carved column at the temple's southeast corner, which has tilted precariously since a 1981 earthquake moved its base by more than one inch. When the crane is idle, its upper portions will fold down, out of sight of the residents and visitors in the city below...
...fast" passages of paint is what gives Manet's surface its probing liveliness. There is nothing "miraculous" about it, but it was not the result of a mechanically acquired technique either. It is there because, in his best work, Manet's inquisitiveness never failed him; every inch of surface records an active desire to see and then find the proper translation of sight into mark...
Richard Scifeddine '87 recalled a four-inch-long cockroach he found in the closet of one Yard room. Despite a thorough dousing with various industrial-strength chemicals, the bug scurried away into a crevice...
...lights, trimming back service-station hours, lowering commercial-building temperatures and shutting down escalators. Many other countries, of course, took the same measures, but the Japanese were more successful. Japanese refrigerators now use only about half the electricity of the 1973 models, and air conditioners 20% less. A 19-inch television set that used 140 watts in 1973 today needs less than 95. The government also started a new three-tier pricing system for electricity that puts a surcharge on the rate for heavy residential users...