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Immediately after Harden stripped away the outer layer of paper from the package, a sealed letter--which was not opened yesterday--"on the Sacco-Vanzetti case," addressed to "Sir Horace Plunkett" tumbled...
Even for the city of stars, it was a cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser...
...them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...
...test-ban agreement, outlawing nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space, is already in effect between the superpowers. Two other agreements, limiting the size of underground explosions, have been signed by both sides but have not been ratified by the U.S. Senate. Nonetheless, as a top priority in its arms-control program, the Carter Administration has been pushing for a new, comprehensive test-ban agreement. Reason: it is fearful that the Russians, who have made far greater use of nuclear firepower than the U.S. for earth moving and other engineering purposes, could be gaining valuable military...
...cause of the changes can be traced, at least in part, to plate tectonics, the movement of the great crustal plates that ride on the earth's semimolten mantle and provide its solid outer shell. Some 45 million to 50 million years ago, the plate that carries the Indian subcontinent was pushing up into the underbelly of Asia, slowly thrusting up the massive mountain range now called the Himalayas. This new barrier to global wind circulation helped change weather patterns, altering average temperatures around the world. By about 14 million years ago, climates that had been tropical had turned largely...