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...open its 80th season, the Metropolitan Opera last week mounted a lavish new production of an old operatic warhorse, Lucia di Lammermoor. Designer Attilio Colonello created massive settings of gnarled, Sequoia-size trees and great Scottish castles. Costumes were dazzlingly extravagant. The male leads, swathed in layer upon layer of brocades, silks and laces, looked like overweight peacocks, but dashingly...
...CRIMSON revealed Saturday that as a result of a long dry spell and seepage of salt water into the Charles at its mouth, the river has divided into two layers: a stagnant upper layer of fresh water and a deoxygenated lower layer of salt water. Sewage drained into the Charles falls to the bottom where it decomposes; because there is little oxygen, this decomposition produces hydrogen sulfide. And hydrogen sulfide smells...
...result, the river has divided into a stagnant upper layer of fresh water and a deoxygenated lower layer of salt water. The sewage which is drained into the Charles falls to the bottom, where it decomposes. Since there is not enough oxygen, this decomposition produces hydrogen sulfide, which gives off the now-familiar smell or rotten eggs...
...defense mechanism as sophisticated as tomorrow's anti-missile missile. Attacked by a water strider, a fast, long-legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin elastic layer of water that marks the boundary between fluid and air. With that surface tension gone, a small water wave rises and propels the Stenodus out of danger. When the attacking water strider, which is normally supported by the film of surface tension, tries to follow, it sinks and drowns...
...bending metal," says Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. At North American Aviation, where formal educational enrollment has almost doubled to 10,000 in five years, employees can get fulltime graduate fellowships, part-time work-study fellowships, or join one of hundreds of in-plant classes that range from hypersonic boundary layer theory to environmental control systems for the Apollo moon rocket. Since 80% of North American's business depends on the new technology of missiles, electronics, rocket engines and atomics, the company considers the money-$4,500,000 last year-extremely well spent...