Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunlight broke through the dark, rolling thunderheads last week as Jimmy Carter's presidential motorcade headed toward a desolate plateau near Golden, Colo. He was on his way to deliver a speech marking Sun Day. Then, suddenly, it began to rain and hail...
...mirrors to set on fire an invading Roman fleet in 212 B.C. Over the past century, experimental solar units have been used to power everything from a printing press in France to a water-distilling plant in Chile. With today's advanced technology, the potential is enormous. The sunlight falling on earth could theoretically provide 100,000 times the total energy output of all existing power stations. At present there are three forms of active solar units...
Photovoltaic cells made of silicon or cadmium sulfide, which can convert sunlight directly into electricity. Costs are very high, and existing installations are still only experimental...
...sleep behind her, Gelsey is a ragamuffin hiding from attention, swathed in a tentlike brown tunic and baggy sweat pants. The rehearsal piano pounds away, and Howard's piercing voice ("Now up, now up, now up ") guides some 90 students through a long series of stretches and drills. Morning sunlight pours through the tall windows; the air is humid with exertion. Gelsey moves among the stretching, straining bodies, her eyes dense with concentration. "The floor could collapse," says Howard, "and she would not notice." She works in counterpoint to the other dancers, seeming to sense a rhythm in his commands...
Early on, the race looked like an unexpectedly easy victory for a Crimson crew that came in uncertain that they would win. In a light breeze and bright sunlight, Harvard came the start even, then gradually pulled away from MIT. By 500 meters the Crimson had two seats on MIT and six on a Dartmouth squad that had been desperately practicing this week on the only 500 unfrozen meters of the Connecticut River near Hanover...