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...mainspring of life is photosynthesis, the process by which plants manufacture food out of carbon dioxide-and water under the influence of sunlight. So one of the problems of biology is to learn as much as possible about photosynthesis. If the process could be made more efficient, the world's food supply would take a large jump. Since photosynthesis depends on the energy of sunlight, it stops when a plant is in darkness. In fact it runs backward. A plant respires (breathes) like an animal, absorbing oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, and biologists have assumed that the plant...
...them. The axis, he decided, is inclined about 32° from the plane of the ecliptic in which the planets revolve around the sun. Since the earth's inclination is only about 23½°, the seasonal changes of climate on Venus, due to the changing angle of sunlight, may be considerably more pronounced than they are on earth...
...Inge's bus is a convenient stage device, it is yet a striking symbol for his whole lost, seeking, itinerant world. The peripheral figure remains the central one in Inge's gallery. But in Bus Stop there are integrated figures also; the shadows are interlaced with sunlight, the naturalistic brooder is absorbed into the humorist. The difference between the two plays is also partly one of production. Where Picnic so stressed theatrical values as to ossify human ones, Bus Stop, under Harold Clurman's understanding direction, seamlessly blends the two. Despite deeper entanglements, Picnic was all surfaced...
...centuries the Scots have been forced to be proud of their disadvantages -they have so many of them. There is their climate, whose rains make stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There are the English, who keep trying to treat Scotland as a conquered province instead of a proud nation. There is the grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded...
...When exploded on the ground, an H-bomb throws into the air something like one billion tons of pulverized material. Floating for years in the upper atmosphere, the dust may cut the strength of sunlight. It may act as condensation nuclei, stimulating rainfall, and thereby changing the pattern of the winds. Such modifications of climate will not neces sarily be good...