Word: sunlight
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...better. One of the standard texts, by Gene Stanford and Deborah Perry, is even called Death Out of the Closet. The gifted fourth-and fifth-graders, mostly with IQs above 125, who make up Mrs. Shaak's little flock are simply dragging the dark angel into the Florida sunlight and making death almost ordinary...
Mavis Gallant. The name has a romantic ring to it, suggesting a pretty girl, sunlight on English countryside and happy endings, possibly during the Battle of Britain. But no modern writer casts a colder eye on life, on death and all the angst and eccentricity in between. A Canadian, Mrs. Gallant has lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award...
PHYSICS: Sheldon Glashow, 46 (U.S.), Steven Weinberg, 46 (U.S.), and Abdus Salam, 53 (Pakistani), for their contributions to a theory that explains the relationship of two of nature's basic forces: 1) electromagnetism, which accounts for such phenomena as sunlight and radio waves, and 2) the weak force that governs the release of a beta particle from the nucleus of an atom in a process called radioactive decay...
...attempt to determine whether organic molecules can form on other planets, scientists at Ponnamperuma's Laboratory of Chemical Evolution filled a container with gases like those in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Then, to simulate sunlight and Jovian lightning flashes, they exposed the gases to ultraviolet light and shot electric discharges through them. The brown and yellow hues of the organic compounds that formed in the container closely resemble those in the spectacular pictures of the Jupiter clouds taken by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which flew by the planet earlier this year. This finding strongly suggests that organic...
...real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that "he was not trapped into surviving by the currency of the acceptably real." Third, that he could die then and there, "Bred to a harder thing/ than Triumph . . . / be secret and exult,/ Because of all things known/ that is most difficult...