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...personality is the medium for the translation of feeling into movement. This personality is unique. The one common denominator it contains is energy. Energy, although invisible, can be mathematically worked out and felt intersified. Pure mathematics, I see, as a meeting point with another layer of reality...
...generous and saintly in her suffering as Hardwick asserted in her review, and as Petrement argues throughout this study? Isn't there something just plain wrong with someone who makes a vocation out of subjecting herself to the same oppression that prisoners and workers--whom Weil called "the humiliated layer of the social hierarchy"--had to face? (Compassion is one thing, but self-torture is another...
...first energy-conserving schools, which opens this month for 990 kindergarten through sixth-grade students. Built into a hill in Reston, the school contains four large "learning circles," each of which is divided into eight wedge-shaped classrooms, plus a "media center," a gymnasium and a cafeteria. A layer of soil three to five feet thick covers the top and three sides. A panel structure on top of the hill contains 4,900 solar collectors to turn the sun's rays into heat. The yearly cost for energy to run Terraset is a projected $10,000. Conventional heating would...
...Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into marshes, coating wintering waterfowl with a sticky layer of oil that matted their feathers and robbed them of their insulating properties. Tens of thousands of birds were endangered...
...star's red-giant phase lasts until the hydrogen in the layer around the core is exhausted, perhaps as long as a billion years. The stage that follows is short-lived. Its fires banked, the star is deprived of the outward radiation pressure. It contracts violently, driving the core temperature up again, until it reaches 200 million degrees. That is hot enough to ignite the helium, which fuses into a still heavier element: carbon. Its radiation energy restored, the star zooms back toward red-giant status 100 times faster than it took to get there the first time...