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...mining and burning coal; and 3) work toward using "the energy from the sun, the winds, the tides and the heat in the earth's crust." All this is familiar stuff, but the large number of concerned scientists-about 20% of those whose signatures were solicited-may lend new weight to the recommendations...
...peculiar use of language- Spoken with a heavy Chinese accent, his words usually hover on the border between the incomprehensible and the profoundly suggestive. But as with the sage-like Stein in Conrad's Lord Jim, the half finished phrases, the almost aphoristic quality of his sentences, lend a mysterious weight to all he says...
...Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and a tireless promoter of business deals with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Jan. 29, 1973), arranged for the first showing in the U.S. of a group of Hermitage paintings, all French impressionist and post-impressionist...
...dining halls will have to slip their bursar cards into the slot and push down on the machine, just as though their palm prints had been encoded, while the checkers check them off the old way. The whole business is worse than pointless--it's easier than ever to lend your card to someone else, and the dining hall personnel have the extra burden of supervising machines that are just there for show. People practicing on the new machines in Memorial Hall last week, after the hand-print plan had been called off, seemed more amused than outraged...
...acre district have risen 450%. There is another fringe benefit: old buildings, unlike today's unvaried glass and steel boxes, are visual reminders of a city's individuality. "They are friendly structures," says Michael Leventhal of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. "They have detail and lend a sense of history and precedence...