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...when he wakes up in the morning, and a black cat vaguely reflected in a window-have moody overtones suggesting that Fransioli may be tending toward introspection. But while he experiments, he will still save his needle-sharp No. 1 brushes for sure-selling landscape commissions and the sunlight-and-shadow world he paints so precisely...
...purpose: to get out of Greece and back to England and the safe, respectable provincial house where her mother's people lived. When Hebe finally leaves Greece, British Authoress Robertson seems to lose interest in the story. But until then, with an eye as piercing as Greek winter sunlight, she watches the cruel, stunted life of that bitter land during the civil war, when a whole village could be butchered for a few gold coins, or shrewdly examines a pair of lady relief workers ("It's easy to tell that your friend is an Englishwoman," says one refugee...
Stanford's researchers have yet to discover exactly how ozone is formed. But they believe that it results from a photochemical reaction of sunlight and unknown materials in the air. Furthermore, as ozone increases, so does smog. Los Angeles' sunshine has made the atmosphere the most ozone-laden in the world: as high as 80 parts per 100 million parts of air. The solution to the Los Angeles smog problem, according to the Stanford scientists: find out which materials react with the sun to form ozone, filter them out before they reach the open...
...carnivorous driver ants move in endless, well-ordered columns flanked by their larger "officers," who lead and direct the march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...
...Next day the chiseling continued while El Malakh and a group of colleagues waited impatiently. At last the hole was big enough for him to peek inside. In the excitement he forgot to bring a flashlight, so he used a mirror (as the ancient Egyptians probably did) to shoot sunlight into the darkness...