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...have Salome Jens. She doesn't sink, but she's riding in an awfully leaky barge. Dorothy Parker once wrote that Katharine Hepburn gave a performance that "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." Miss Jens extends the alphabet perhaps to E, but this just won't do for a role that requires A to Z. Cleopatra is described as a woman of "infinite variety," but Miss Jens approximates this only in her series of what must be nine or ten different--and resplendent--gowns created for her by Jane Greenwood...
...Well, I guess it'll take the experience a few days to sink in," Miller said hopefully, but he was silent and down driving back across the Bay Bridge to Oakland. His four-week high finally at an end, he drank a glass of milk and went...
...isotopes. As a result, the carbon in the organic compounds that make up the plants' structure consists largely of carbon 12. What is more, the greater preponderance of that isotope becomes preserved in the earth's geological records when, for example, tiny green sea plants (plankton) die, sink to the ocean bottom, gradually decompose and become part of the sea-floor sediment. Still rich in carbon 12, this sediment is eventually compressed into rock and can be geologically dated with considerable accuracy. Thus, the researchers suggest, the 3.3-billion-year age of the South African rock layers...
...surface and use it to drive turbines. There is some question whether such techniques would work where there are no natural vents. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is now trying to exploit the dry, hot (600° F.) granite that underlies most of the earth. Scientists plan to sink two holes 15,000 ft. deep, then pump cold water down one well and let hot steam flow up the other. If successful, the dry-rock system might provide, says one scientist, "all the electricity America will need for the next 3,000 years...
...unreal. World exploding around us. Sit on ground taking notes. Soldiers pop up around us, fire short bursts and then sink back into brittle bamboo. Purple smoke spirals upward on north, pink on south. Rockets crash and thud. 50-cal., thud. M-16 pops. Suddenly, all fire stops and movement shifts to north. Land smoldering, wall of burning tree stumps...