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Even if breakthroughs are made, solar power probably will be able to provide no more than 5% of the nation's energy needs by the end of the century. But there is potential for more over the longer term, now that an increasing number of large companies are putting more effort and more money into research and development. Unlike conventional centralized power stations with their huge distribution networks, photovoltaic cells can be located where the demand is and, in time, can probably be mass-produced...
...modern manufacturing experience and generate foreign-exchange earnings. The Hong Kong companies, for their part, benefit from cheaper Chinese labor and can thus keep export prices low. In the future, Hong Kong may specialize in merchandising and putting sophisticated finishing touches on products. But the colony also has a number of unskilled workers, and some of them could be hurt in the process...
...Iran, on the other hand, it was embarrassingly inept. Says Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "Technologically, it's unbelievable what we have the capacity to do. Our weakness is what we do with the information when we get it. We know the number of tanks belonging to the Warsaw Pact powers, but we want to know where they will...
...Crimson played superbly. Don Pompan took apart Yale's number one John Stiepel, 6-4, 6-0. Pompan had played Stiepel and beaten him in over a half-dozen close matches previously, but never before had he so mercilessly crushed him. In the second set, Pompan played relentlessly. Mixing up hard topspin and under-spin baseline shots, with dink volleys and more forceful net shots, Pompan completely controlled the play. Stiepel wilted under the pressure, paving the way for Pompan's 6-0 second...
Scott Walker, at number three, had perhaps the toughest match. After a tentative start against Yale captain Brad Dressler, Walker began to hit out towards the end of a 7-6 first set. He directed much of his attack at Dressler's weak, two-handed backhand. Walker seemed to be sailing smoothly towards a straight-set victory after apparently breaking Dressler's serve to move up, 5-3, in the second...