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Drake also announced at Harvard the possible discovery of a planet rotating around one of the 45 known pulsars. The mass of this planet is calculated to be nearly equal to the mass of the earth...
...purely scenic means, the City Opera helped raise Boito to the realm of the abstract. Set Designer David Mitchell and Stage Director Tito Capobianco placed the Prologue not in Heaven but in space. The Epilogue suggests Earth as a dying planet illuminated by the corpse of a setting sun. The production was strongly cast in other major roles. Carol Neblett, a vocally arresting but inexperienced soprano, did both Margherita and Helen of Troy. As Faust, Tenor Robert Nagy sang powerfully but with obvious effort. Julius Rudel's conducting rose successfully to the peaks but tended to coast through...
...ultraviolet radiation would have been blocked off by the earth's atmosphere. But, he adds, the atmosphere itself might have been disturbed or even partially swept away. The explosion, for example, might have blown off some atmospheric helium. It could also account for puzzling conditions on other planets, such as the lack of measurable nitrogen on Mars. Perhaps the most spectacular possibility raised by Gold is that one whole side of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, might have been seared by the blast...
...heat, and combustion in general are putting too much CO2 into our air. CO2 in our atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun (reflected off the earth) as heat. This is called the Greenhouse Effect. It was important in the evolution of the earth into a life-supporting planet. The world is getting hotter and hotter. When it gets hot enough, the polar ice caps will start to melt. This will raise the level of the oceans 300 feet. This will cover the land on which two-thirds of the world's people live. Many people know about this problem...
...showmanship -he once attended luncheon with a skunk, a chimpanzee and a ring-tailed lemur in tow-Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running such a busy race for food, space and employment for even greater numbers that we are forgetting the purpose of it all-a better living for human...