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...Leave your newspapers at the door. Don't soil the flowers with their bleeding ink." So I stepped out of the Aquarium onto the gentle and savage bottom of another ocean, shifting with colorful creatures, some moody, some violent. I was happy in the reflection that we had the sunlight to illumine the cathedral corals as well as the virulent, striving tangles of growths through which we jetted and lunged and circled and floated descending down to rest. Some of the creatures in the Aquarium were so beautiful, so diffident, and placid, that watching them dissolved the awareness of observation...
...that is, with the aid of a super reflector of the sort that has been set up by French scientists high in the Pyrenees. Ten years in the building, the world's largest solar furnace is a complex of nearly 20,000 mirrors and can concentrate enough sunlight to create temperatures in excess...
...obvious need, a plastic that decomposes naturally, may soon become a reality. An international team of scientists, led by University of Toronto Chemist James E. Guillet, has designed a plastic that Guillet claims will self-destruct when exposed to sunlight, but will remain intact if it is kept indoors...
Guillet's team got around such problems by finding a way to chemically bond groups of "sensitized" molecules directly into the plastic's carbon chain. When these "S" groups absorb ultraviolet light from direct sunlight, he says, their carbon "backbones" soon begin to be decomposed by microorganisms. But indoors-even in front of glass windows-they will not be affected. Guillet claims that the speed of the breakdown can be controlled by varying the number of "S" groups bonded into the plastic molecules. He also thinks that the process would raise the price of plastics by only...
...stood in front of Mem Church, listening to the NAC speakers and feeling the revolutionary sunlight. "All right, let's move out. We're going to go have lunch at the CFIA," the speaker shouted...