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...Cigars. The Government approved the production of aged light whiskey beginning in 1968 specifically to satisfy U.S. distillers, who had long complained that outdated federal regulations were forcing more and more of the nation's 95 million drinkers to buy imported liquor.* Whereas U.S. tastes increasingly favored lighter-bodied products, especially Scotch and Canadian whiskies, federal rules forced domestic distillers to keep right on making the same kind of drink that helped win the Old West. For one thing, it had to be distilled at 160 proof or less, while Scotch and Canadian whiskies could be distilled at higher...
...organisms capable of photosynthesis-the chemical process by which green plants use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food and oxygen-show a marked chemical preference for carbon 12, which is the lighter of the two isotopes. As a result, the carbon in the organic compounds that make up the plants' structure consists largely of carbon 12. What is more, the greater preponderance of that isotope becomes preserved in the earth's geological records when, for example, tiny green sea plants (plankton) die, sink to the ocean bottom, gradually decompose and become part...
...doesn't make too much of it: he lets us figure it out for ourselves. But then he has something more to say: the gun dealer Jackie Brown, betrayed by Eddie Coyle, is on trial for selling machineguns. He is going to be found guilty. Does he want a lighter sentence? Then he'd better cooperate with the U.S. Attorney... Once again the irony is nice, but this time Higgins spoils it by being too obvious. The prosecutor and the defense attorney are made to commiserate with one another about how this is the way things work: "Is there...
Grandfather's Gifts by contrast is a lighter, shorter song about childhood memories. The melody laid down by the guitars tinkles like a child's music box, placing one in the fanciful atmosphere of early youth. The song is affectionately nostalgic but also reveals how we still live in the fairy tales of our youth as adults...
...York centers on the efficiency of the municipal sanitation force as opposed to private cartmen. DeLury counters that private cartmen are a "single operation," collecting high-mass garbage from restaurants, industries, and the like. His men, he says, not only have the more time-consuming job of collecting lighter-mass rubbish--which has to be compacted over and over again to equal the mass of one load of garbage--but they are also responsible for street cleaning, snow removal, and disposal operations. "I'm a great guy for studies, though," he says, willing to take on a comparative pilot program...