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...spectra can also be created by directing a light beam or, say, X or gamma rays at an object. As the radiant energy strikes the atoms, their electrons hop from one orbit (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, one energy level) to another, absorbing or emitting light at specific frequencies. Such spectra yielded invaluable data about atomic and molecular structure...
...decades this notion of returning the streets to a variety of human uses. The now no-longer modern movement in architecture and city planning attempted to resolve the conflict between cars and people by abolishing the street altogether. The modern ideal was Le Corbusier's dream of The Radiant City, which consisted of skyscrapers spaced far apart in a huge park, pierced by superhighways. The trouble was, of course, that the park too easily turned into a parking lot. The concept, which guided much urban renewal in the United States during the 1960s, had a deadening effect on city...
...military industrial complex)--greatest concentration of managerial/financial/scientific genius in evolution--dramatically converts to peace-solar energy and a radiant new life for America and the world! Henry Ratliff...
...says. "I looked upon acting as a job, and now, frankly, I regret it. I think of all the things I could have done. I just let parts come to me. I never went after them." Still, that seems to be about all she regrets, and if Colbert, radiant and ageless, is not happy, who is? "She's been drinking from the Fountain of Youth, that girl," marveled one elderly gent on opening night. Could be. Reminded that one of her idols, Lynn Fontanne, is now past 90, Colbert beams and says: "I'm going to do that...
...Mornings on Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife...