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Despite the emphasis on ideology, however, the kids sent to the camps are not necessarily a breed apart from contemporaries who spend their summers catching poison ivy and frogs instead of lectures on solar heating and Big Brother. When the Hayden/Fonda campers drew up their own bill of rights, the first item was one that might appeal to the Birchers-or any other kids-as well: peace from parents...
More efficient management could go a long way toward ending our energy dependence as well, she says, as if we conserved energy, insulated our buildings, gave strong encouragement to solar energy and utilized our local resources--wind, water, solid waste and manpower...
...with these high-flying Soviet space efforts, NASA is still struggling to save the unoccupied Skylab space station from plunging prematurely to earth. Late last year, Skylab began to show a dangerous loss of altitude, a byproduct of atmospheric effects caused by unexpectedly strong sunspot activity during the current solar cycle. Skylab's descent is being hastened by its wobbling motion, which increases friction as the ship moves through stray molecules of atmosphere in its path. Ground controllers twice tried unsuccessfully to stabilize the craft, hoping to keep it aloft at least until the end of 1979. By then...
...revolves around the sun at a mean distance of 5.9 billion km (3.7 billion miles) once every 248 years. Even in powerful telescopes, it is visible only as a fleck of light. Pluto, the solar system's ninth planet, was not discovered until 1930, and little is yet known about it. Now astronomers have learned surprising new things about the faroff planet: it appears to have a moon, seems to be much smaller than previously estimated and may some day be stripped of its title as the outermost member of the sun's family of planets...
...this quality that gives Camus a solar power in times of cant and moral squalor. Unlike his fellow anti-colonialists, Camus was never willing to issue a license to kill. Of rebel atrocities he writes, "The truth, alas, is that part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved...