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...somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth...
Although the contents of the report prepared for Gordon have not been made public. The Crimson has learned that the collapse was blamed on a sunlight-weakened seam and the failure of an alarm system to summon an engineer when the winds reached gale force...
...under lower strain than guaranteed by its manufacturer. Under test conditions, the seams reportedly gave way at only about one fifth of the pressure they were supposed to withstand. Apparently the nylon cord used for the seams had badly decomposed from five years of ultra-violet rays of the sunlight...
...continued to honor the unwritten but hallowed "Billy Penn Hatbrim Rule," which holds that no building may rise higher than 548 ft. (or about 40 stories), the height of the hatbrim on the huge statue of Penn that surmounts city hall. As a result, the sidewalks are flooded with sunlight from city hall, a gloriously gaudy souvenir of the 19th century, to the simplicity and quiet dignity of Independence Hall...
...cylinders. With these and other amenities, the inhabitants (eventually as many as 200,000 people in each) could easily live, work and play on the cylinders' inner surfaces. For power, the space people could rely on electricity produced by pollution-free solar panels. Movable mirrors would direct sunlight through windows of the cylinders and could be manipulated to create the effect of night and day and even of changing seasons...