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There is far more to be revealed: most of the tablets have yet to be published. Meanwhile the diggers are hard at work in the 1981 season, which concludes next month. Does the mound of Tell Mardikh hold more buried tablets with more disclosures? Do the glory years of Ebla hold the true roots of contemporary Western economics and customs...
Rising out of a field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning...
...pipes and pumps drew off the ice water from the bottom of the pond, and it was recirculated by other pipes and pumps back to the snowmaker. The water was then sprayed out onto the pile all over again, as slush, adding still more ice granules to the growing mound. After several weeks, a compact mound of ice about 30 ft. thick had been formed...
...summer has progressed, the mound of ice has begun to melt slowly, sending ice water trickling down through the granules to the bottom of the pond...
...1950s, he designed the largest fission bomb that had ever been exploded. In the 1960s he worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Orion, an aborted fission-powered spaceship that was supposed to explore the solar system. For now, Taylor is happy with his melting ice mound. Says he: "Standing on that pile of ice is pure adventure. We are developing the first renewable-energy cooling system that is competitive with electrical air conditioning...