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...Piceance Basin, the heart of a geological formation containing the world's biggest known deposit of oil shale. Locked in the mottled rock is the energy equivalent of about 1.2 trillion bbl. of oil, or roughly 40 times the nation's present proven reserves of liquid petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Tapping the Riches of Shale | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...executives. These technicians could shut down a reactor any time the gauges misbehave, without thinking about costs. Weinberg also suggests that the nation investigate whether some types of reactors-the graphite-moderated, gas-cooled kind used in Britain, or Canada's ''Candu,'' cooled by liquid sodium-might be safer than the pressurized-water reactors built by the U.S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

After Horner's grab, the drive stalled, and Cody, who had made only one field goal all year, a 25 yarder, came on for a 41-yd. attempt from the semi-liquid turf...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Gives Gridders 23-14 Mudbath | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Galveston, the Todd Shipping Corporation plans to take the wastes, evaporate the liquid and then ship the solid residue out to one of the nation's three waste dumping grounds in Beattie, Nevada. At least that was the plan...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waste Not, Want Not | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

This recognition is the source of Lessing's strength. As interested as she has become in grand designs or configurations of enormous powers, she does not forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visit to a Small Planet | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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