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Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops. Spears of sunlight flashed from the lenses of binoculars as nervous officers searched the streets for signs of the enemy. But the town was empty of armed opposition, and all eyes lifted to the sere, sawback massif that reared beyond. Up there, among the blue defiles of the Aures Mountains, waited the latest defector from Premier Ahmed ben Bella's socialist paradise, and with him were 9,000 well-armed veterans ready for resistance, rebellion or death...
Paris skies may still be grey, but there is sunlight in its stones. As if ready to abandon his Gallic faith in wine, one slightly awed clochard said, "And to think that water can do all this...
...last week, Niigata's luck changed. Said one survivor: "The ground rose up as though a giant had awakened underground and was trying to get out into the sunlight." The shock of the earthquake tumbled a brand-new bridge into the Shinano River. For a few moments the river ran backward, broke through embankments and flooded half the city. A four-story apartment house slowly fell over on its back, carrying with it a terrified housewife who had been hanging laundry on the roof. When the rolling stopped, she stepped to the ground, unhurt, as were the other residents...
...scientists offer two explanations, both of them uncertain. Perhaps the passage of a satellite's shadow may disturb Jupiter's atmosphere in some way, permitting warmer lower layers to rise upward and be detected from the earth. Or perhaps the interruption of sunlight stops a photochemical reaction in Jupiter's high atmosphere, making it temporarily more transparent so that radiant warmth from below can escape into space...
Harvard and the rest of New England go on Daylight Saving Time Sunday, providing an hour of extra evening sunlight in which to cross Weeks Bridge in safety. The official time change takes place at 2 a.m., which becomes...