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...been Quadded? What's it like up there? What are the people like up there?" people often ask me. I feel as though I've been exiled to the ozone layer. I've been waiting for someone to ask if Quadlings actually lived and breathed like normal Harvard students...
...Changes occur in the skin. The topmost layer, or epidermis, becomes dry and blemished. The middle layer, or dermis, thins dramatically, making the skin seem translucent, and becomes much less elastic and supportive. These changes, along with loss of fat from the underlying subcutaneous layer, cause the skin to sag and wrinkle. Drinking, smoking and suntanning speed up these processes. With less fat and a decline in the activity of sweat glands, the skin becomes a less efficient regulator of body temperature. The result: older people have a harder time staying warm and cooling off. Protective pigment-forming cells that...
...colored glass dances in the flame. It loops and curls as tweezers cajole the formless blob into shape, flattening its surface and teasing out its apex, until, as if the flame has magical properties, a small, delicately structured leaf emerges. More colored glass is added to the gas jet, layer upon layer of opaque, translucent and transparent browns, yellows, oranges and reds, and one by one petals, stamens and stems bloom into being. Paul Stankard leans back from the workbench at his home in Mantua, N.J., and his broad, open face creases into a smile. "You know what...
...occasionally offers a challenging sci-fi aphorism -- "Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation" -- but by now the mix of imagination and anachronism is wearing as thin as the oxygen layer on Mars...
...culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...