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Generations of schoolboys who have been taught that moonlight is nothing more than reflected sunlight may well have been misinformed. More and more scientists have become convinced that the moon occasionally generates light of its own. During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...other ways the tinted glass is an unfortunate compromise. It does not eliminate the need for curtains, as the architect apparently hoped. In spite of the overhanging roof, late afternoon sunlight streams into the west side of the library and the west-facing courtyard offices on the upper floors. While this period is not popular among students for work, it is a favorite time for the faculty members, who like to drop by for a few hours after afternoon classes. When the sun hits the offices they are caught in a spotlight and as their rooms heat up they cannot...
Such trees as fragrant pine and plants such as pungent sage produce the "blue haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
...first glance, it seemed to be merely a photograph of a quarter moon in the night sky. What made the picture remarkable was that it actually showed a quarter earth, reflecting sunlight in the dark lunar sky. It was the first photograph of earth ever taken from deep space, and it was shot by Lunar Orbiter 1 from a point only 27 miles above the surface of the moon. Clearly visible in the foreground was part of the lunar surface marked by its familiar craters. But most of the visible portion of the earth was covered by swirling white clouds...
...scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven, disconnected spectacle of tragic nonsense, has planned it otherwise." Or at Jolson's (whom he disliked intensely): "I am proud to have basked in the sunlight of his greatness, to have been part of his time, and to have only a few days ago-this last Sunday night-hugged him and said, 'Good night, Asa, take care of yourself...