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Potentially the most promising geothermal sources lie in areas where molten rock, or "magma," is fairly close to the earth's surface. In theory, engineers can sink twin wells as deep as 20,000 feet to the hot underlying rock and then fracture it. Clean water, pumped down one hole, would be heated by the broken-up magma and would return up the other well as steam...
...easy to forget that a lot of the old comedians' gags did not quite come off either. Their movies, too, might have been even funnier had their scripts been edited more rigorously and directed more artfully instead of being produced on the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink principle of comedy. Like its many raucous predecessors, Blazing Saddles is a thing of bits and bits-some good, some awful-pinned to a story line that sags like a tenement clothesline. The movie tends to improve in the retelling, as memory edits out ineptitudes, the better to dwell on moments...
...Crimson fell behind by ten and seven points, respectively, to the Quakers and the Tigers, after first half doldrums. In both instances, Sanders's squadron set sail from their locker room session to catch up midway through the final half, only to sink back into passive oblivion. Finally, the spoilers struck. Penn's 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore John Engels and Princeton's Joe Vavricka went wild to pirate the game away...
...choice between economic survival and the inflationary wage demands of union militants. "The election," he declared, "gives you, the people, the chance to say to the miners and to everyone else who wields similar power, 'Times are hard, we are all in the same boat, and if you sink us now, we will all drown...
Strictly speaking, a "merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe would be a legal, corporate affair: Radcliffe would stop paying a fee to Harvard to cover the maintenance of its buildings and the billing of its students; it would sell its property to Harvard; and it would sink its endowment into Harvard's Nothing more...