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Castaneda is a brilliant, self-mocking and-one assumes, despite the weirdness of the narrative-truthful storyteller. The account of his apprenticeship to Don Juan, with grueling desert marches and arduous disciplines, apparitions and struggles in fog and bright sunlight, as well as some mind-wrenching magic tricks, makes hypnotic reading. Don Juan and his friend, a fiercely mischievous old Mazatec Indian brujo named Don Genaro, are credited with making Castaneda's parked, locked car vanish and then materialize again from, of all things...
Spitz and the other 11,999 athletes from 124 nations opened the Olympiad under the bright Bavarian sunlight in Munich's vast acrylic-domed stadium. The national teams paraded by the grandstand in a panoply of colors as massed bands played modern dance tunes instead of the traditional martial anthems. The Olympic flame, carried some 3,500 miles by an international team of 5,976 runners, was borne to the torch by Gunter Zahn, 18, West German runner. West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating...
...only parallel but are also in phase: their crests and troughs coincide and reinforce each other, making it possible to produce an extremely intense and concentrated beam. In practice, however, lasers have drawbacks. The beams collide with molecules in the atmosphere and weaken over long distances; like sunlight, they may be blocked by clouds...
Under the searching Tuscan sunlight, the dialogue between the vast, worn stones of the fortress and Moore's luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy...
...organisms capable of photosynthesis-the chemical process by which green plants use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food and oxygen-show a marked chemical preference for carbon 12, which is the lighter of the two isotopes. As a result, the carbon in the organic compounds that make up the plants' structure consists largely of carbon 12. What is more, the greater preponderance of that isotope becomes preserved in the earth's geological records when, for example, tiny green sea plants (plankton) die, sink to the ocean bottom, gradually decompose and become part...