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...what it will do to us," says Wines. An unsettling view of what Wines calls "the American mobilized experience" is offered in the firm's Ghost Parking Lot at the Hamden Plaza shopping center in Hamden, Conn.: a row of 20 automobiles submerged to varying depths under a layer of asphalt...
...Bell operator before getting married, and his father spent 37 years with the company, eventually rising to district traffic manager in Richmond. While earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Virginia, Brown worked two summers as an AT&T ditchdigger and cable layer, making $13 a week. After joining the Navy during World War II and serving as a radioman in the Pacific Fleet, he became an equipment maintenance man for AT&T in Hartford, Conn...
...best, Ehrlich figures, small bands of hunters and gatherers would be left in the Southern Hemisphere. And life would have difficulty renewing itself even after the dark and cold lifted, because most of the protective layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere would have been burned off. Killer ultraviolet radiation would stream in from the sun, paralyzing even phytoplankton, the one-celled ocean plants that form the base of the ocean's food chain. The effects would be less ghastly-but still catastrophic-if fewer megatons were exploded...
Using slides to illustrate his 90 minute presentation, Sagan said that following a nuclear war the earth would experience a dramatic drop in intercontinental temperatures, the partial destruction of the ozone layer, and the virtual ceasing of photosynthesis of green plants in the northern hemisphere...
Prestige attached to garages re mains unsettled, but the family car had better not be a Mercedes, Rolls or Cadillac. Fussell assures us that the best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of your residences is in a place so unpublic that the roads to it are not even paved, "indeed are hardly passable by your ordinary vulgar automobile...