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...most are serious of purpose, and many are attractive and talented. In all, some 2,000 would-be performers are shuffled through, and 300 are called back for further auditions; eventually, perhaps one or two will be cast. Yet even the losers, as they come blinking into the sunlight, say it has been worthwhile, and they use almost identical words. "You never get anything," explains a dancer-typist, "unless...
...Bjelasnica, all covered with snow, workmen are hoisting a wheel to finish rigging a ski lift. The wind is fierce, and faces are glowing like crepes suzette. The snow blowing in the sunlight is as fine as dust. To lengthen the course a few meters, the downhill run begins inside a new restaurant adjacent to a weather station whose frozen antennas resemble the turrets and spires on an ice castle...
...John Hodge, calls it, will take a minimum of five flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from the station's operations. In addition, there will be external pallets on which various scientific instruments can be mounted, one or more remote-controlled cranes to move equipment about and at least one docking port for visits...
...What do you do with a gazebo?" Bright bars of sunlight lay on the rag rugs and the pine floors, and a shaft of the stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot...
...exploration starts with a basic aspect of history, time itself. Who first thought of measuring the year, or dividing it into months and weeks? The Romans decreed a week of eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely by the length of sunlight, so the units of time varied in different places and seasons. Not until medieval monks conceived an obligation to pray at fixed hours of the night did their need spur the invention of a mechanical clock that worked in the dark...