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...Brian Pethica already knows the U.S. well, and he has no problems political or financial. Now 49, a research chemist at the Unilever Corp. in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Pethica has been crossing the Atlantic at least once a year since 1958, and he likes what he calls "the entrepreneurial attitude." But he wants to teach. Says he: "The university system in Britain seems somehow less open, more rigid, more hierarchical. In the U.S. there is a broad diversity of systems, which allows you to educate everyone as far as he can go. That opportunity to broaden the possibilities...
Varian Associates of Palo Alto has also come up with an idea to tap the sun as a source of power. The firm has developed a gallium arsenide solar converter only one-third of an inch in diameter that can produce 10 watts of electricity from the sunlight reflected from a concentrating mirror...
...returned from the bird sanctuary with the last rays of sunlight. The lagoon was a gentle green color set against the dramatic black silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...
...which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different from harvesting grain, say foresters, and greatly benefits the replanting of Douglas fir and other valuable species that need plenty of sunlight to grow...
...walls. Polishing rag. And the mirrors of those who stood too close doing battle with their blemishes. Plastic spray bottle. And those who left town without flushing. Damn them. "Johnny brush" with plastic bristles. That's just about everything. And thus weighted, the student porter climbs out into the sunlight of the Yard...