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This was a particularly bright year for photovoltaics, the technology for converting sunlight into electricity. First Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison developed a silicon solar collector they claim will halve the cost of squeezing juice from the sun. Then a pair of researchers in Switzerland came up with an efficient photovoltaic device fashioned after the greatest solar cells of all: the chlorophyll molecules in plants...
FEMTOSECOND LASERS. Like strobes flickering across a submicroscopic dance floor, these devices can freeze the gyrations of atoms and molecules with flashes of light. The lasers are being used to study everything from how sodium joins with other atoms to form salts to how plants convert sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis. Physicists from California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory reported that they used such a laser to take a "snapshot" of the chemical reaction that is the first step in visual perception. This reaction, triggered when light hits the retina of the eye, had never before been directly...
...power ebbs and his energy fades. Califano smothered Johnson's vindictiveness before it left the Oval Office. He just ignored stupid orders, and he pushed his own policy choices on a dispirited boss, a man who could work wonders in the back rooms but was blinded in the open sunlight...
Theresa Lopez said she saw the Virgin "wearing a gold gown . . . surrounded by pink, sparkling lights." Everyone else saw blue sky and stabbing sunlight. When the day was over, a woman named Kathy left the Mother Cabrini Shrine near Denver disillusioned. She had brought her two-year-old son, who is mentally and physically disabled, because she thought the Virgin would help...
...taller than five stories. The largest is the museum, which is, in turn, broken up into five pavilions set around a 1 1/2-acre garden courtyard, interconnected by walkways, some open air. The arrangement means that a visitor's tour will be punctuated by blasts of California blue sky and sunlight: Rembrandt and Ruisdael landscapes interspersed with real- life Pacific vistas...