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...were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions. The haze covering the Uranian north polar area,* he suggested, may be smog--not unlike the Los Angeles variety--resulting from a photochemical reaction caused by sunlight acting upon gases in the planet's atmosphere...
...weeks after a major nuclear war, and the searing white flashes of 25,000 bombs have faded into a black drizzle of radioactive fallout. Yet Armageddon is not complete: for miles above the earth, sunlight is blotted out by plumes of smoke from the vast conflagrations in which the major cities of the Northern Hemisphere have been consumed. This thick veil of soot and dust slowly circulates through various layers of the atmosphere, blanketing entire continents, creating a world of frigid darkness. As ground temperatures plummet by as much as 40° F and the sun is obscured, crops...
...stems from the size of this magnificent book, which is every bit as big and heavy as it has to be to accommodate hundreds of sumptuous reproductions. They too, of course, distract attention from the text: voluptuous nudes, enchanted gardens, glittering portraits and skies filled to the brim with sunlight. Dedicated readers will learn that Renoir's long life was not as serene and untroubled as the joy that shines from his canvases might suggest. That information is worth knowing, but examining these pictures is a greater reward...
...sunlight streamed through abstract stained-glass windows in the Vatican's ultramodern audience hall, Pope John Paul II told 7,000 pilgrims last week that the practice and attitude of contraception were "harmful to man's interior spiritual culture." Roman Catholic couples, said he, must make a true spiritual evaluation of their sexual relations and express "mature availability to fatherhood and motherhood...
...brain hemorrhage. Another, called "Rhythms and Drives," introduces a Virginia woman who plunges into a crippling depression every winter. For months, she tearfully relates, her time is spent "sleeping, eating, crying." Her disorder is apparently an exaggerated version of the brain's natural response to seasonal variations in sunlight. The treatment: placing her for two hours each day in front of a bank of fluorescent lights, which fool her brain's biological clock into thinking it is summer. The stories are sometimes uncomfortably graphic (a ten-year-old boy who suffers up to 60 epileptic seizures...