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...Crimson slashed through the front nine with John Bartlett forging a 38 and Alex Vik sauntering to nine consecutive pars, despite having to lag up on a cluster of early doglegs...
...getcha for this." Then came two more socially stratified black sitcoms: Good Times, wherein J.J. and his ghetto clan give a new meaning-and pronunciation-to dynamite, and the middle-class Jeffersons, which demonstrates weekly that blacks also can be bigoted. This year there were signs of Lear jet lag. One Day at a Time, a story of a divorced woman's travails with her two unlovable teen-age daughters, has fairly healthy ratings, but The Dumplings, a somewhat unbelievable celebration of love and cholesterol, seems unlikely to survive...
...authors soon discover that the tour is a grinding, unglamorous ordeal. What should be a time to savor the satisfaction of having completed months, even years of solitary work turns into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack...
Despite their progress in developing solar cells, giant reflectors and other devices, scientists still lag far behind nature in their ability to harness solar energy. No man-made device can match the performance of the green pigment chlorophyll: through the process of photosynthesis, it converts some 30% of the sunlight striking it into the chemical energy that plants use to create their own food. Even more frustrating, chlorophyll has defied the efforts of scientists to use it directly to produce energy for man; the pigment is highly unstable...
...Life expectancy is now 76.7 years for white women and 68.9 years for white men, up 2.1 years and 1.2 years respectively in the past decade. But non-whites continue to lag, with a life span of about 71.3 years for women and 62.9 years...