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Instead, the J.P.L. scientists proposed taking advantage of a free and virtually inexhaustible source of power: the pressure of sunlight. Moving at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) a second, the photons from the sun would exert force on the large sail-just as a handful of sand, thrown against the sail of a toy boat, can push it through the water...
...Pentagon Three once cut itself off from the outside world. The first part of the book's warning is about paranoia. The narrator also passes up his one chance to get away from the corridors after corridors. Once he found a way out of them, a door into sunlight. He should have run hard and far and dove into a cold mountain stream. And returned, if he could then see a reason. The narrator left the doorway uncrossed, to return to the heart of the Pentagon, to seek his mission underneath the undying fluorescent lights, in the midst...
...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
...graceful dining room of Blair House, Trudeau pondered the lessons from Thucydides and Macaulay, that all countries must finally change. Just then his young wife Margaret entered the room, fresh and smiling from a walk in the sunlight. With her at his side and with Friend Jimmy Carter's exhortations ringing in his ears, Pierre Elliott Trudeau headed back into the fray...
Temperature rising as he flashed his badge and journeyed upstairs to the press conference. It was in a small room, with little sunlight and tight around the collar. The speaker's table was engulfed by a grotesque blob of lenses and flesh and cigars and cameras and elbows and underarms. In the middle of the frantic enterprise she appeared. Like a jelly donut atop an anthill. They swarmed...