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...Placed ball in the Pacific Ocean...
Schrag and his colleagues have also studied conditions during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, hoping to discover the ocean's temperature during the period...
...unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined up and bore down on the wide, white beach like a gang of boys intent on jumping a gully...
Unstated but implicit throughout the novel is the sense that life is teaching Jim that he will someday have to leave Aliceville, his mother, the uncles who tried to fill the place left by his dead father. Preserving the present moment is as impossible as making the ocean hold still. Grownups who dwell overlong on such a thought may be accused, with some justice, of rank sentimentality. But such folks can watch this knowledge, in Jim the Boy, dawn on a child and remember or imagine their own ages of innocence...
...coming years, high tech will increasingly look low tech as we solve problems by turning to biology and microscopic particles where we once turned to engineering and information technologies. Today a rig churning and cranking to sop up an oil spill mars an ocean landscape; tomorrow genetically engineered micro-organisms will be sent into the ocean to clean up an oil spill invisibly...