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Bazzaz proposes that cutting down on fuel consumption could be a significant factor in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "We need to be more efficient," he says. "We need to move towards alternative energy sources such as solar energy...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, | Title: Biologist Studies Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Plants | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

...colony a safe distance from their own planet, sure to burn up in their sun's imminent supernova death. They would be obvious--maybe landing their probe, for instance, on the White House lawn--and they would be everywhere. They would appear not just on Earth, but in every solar system in every galaxy. * At least that's what Frank Tippler says...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...from being created on Earth, that would allow aliens to visit Earth with relative. He says that NASA had a conference about 10 ago that asserted that the development of self-replicating robots may only be 50 years in the future. These machines would use materials from foreign solar systems to "reproduce," and would thus remove barriers presented by interstellar distances...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...something frantic and indiscriminate about his activism. Along with environmentalism, Raffi is lending his name across the countercultural spectrum: he supports aggressive feminism, Native American land claims and animal rights. He believes oil companies should shut down their refineries not soon, but tomorrow, and devote their profits to developing solar energy. No executive of any company should earn more than $1 million a year. "Would that be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Clapping Hands: RAFFI | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Bottom Line. The Coppertone girl and her pup in downtown Miami are sending the wrong signal in these solar-phobic times, says the manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Icons | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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