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...Librarian Hinda Sklar says more money is needed to endow books so more unrestricted funds can be devoted to areas like technology that are harder to raise money for. On the whole, she says the library is in good condition...
Professor of Pathology Dr. Jeffrey L. Sklar and co-workers have used enzymes called resolvases, isolated from bacteriainfecting viruses, to hunt for mutations in large genes. The technique, reported in the journal Nature Genetics, has proved capable of detecting 94 percent of mutations in a gene...
...Electric, formed a consortium to purchase $500 million worth of solar panels over the next six years. These utilities, which serve 40% of the country's electric customers, hope solar power can help replace aging plants that will begin phasing out by the end of the decade. Says Scott Sklar, director of the Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents more than 500 U.S. solar-equipment makers: "This will allow the solar industry to double its manufacturing capacity and acquire new capital to ramp up new production." That in turn will reduce manufacturing costs...
...which cannot afford to build costly nuclear or fossil-fuel plants in rural areas, now buy nearly two-thirds of all solar panels produced in the U.S. "In Mexico there are 28 million people without electricity, and Mexico has the most ambitious solar electrification program in the world," says Sklar. Elsewhere, India and Zimbabwe are using World Bank financing to light up remote areas with solar power; India is installing photovoltaic systems in 38,000 villages, and Zimbabwe is bringing sun power to 2,500 villages...
...crucial historical footage was the Zapruder film, for a copy of which Stone paid $40,000. "It's the most important visual record we have of the assassination," says Sklar. "To make a movie without it is to miss a lot." Over and over, at the climax of JFK, Garrison plays the fatal shot -- tragedy as therapy -- to help solve the mystery and restore the fearful impact of the day that yanked a nation out of its cocoon of innocence. For all its cynicism, or even paranoia, about official venality, the film is a call for a kind of informed...