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...about a year ago where the routine, the cadence of the life of a writer, was getting to me a little bit--by which I mean a book every two years or so, going underground and working alone in this unnaturally solitary way, poking your head out in the sunlight and going on a book tour, and then going back to the next book. I just thought I'd like to start doing some new things. I was thinking to myself, "I don't know if I ever signed on to this book thing for life. There may be some...
That patience pays off. DS1 will carry a mere 180 lbs. of xenon fuel, about one-tenth the fuel needed for a conventional craft. Electricity required to power thrusters and other equipment will come from a new solar panel equipped with 720 lenses that focus sunlight down to a strip of solar cells...
...bottom and rotating once a minute, too slow to have caused structural damage. Even more encouraging, the geometry of SOHO's orbit was tilting the craft's axis of rotation toward the sun by about a degree a day. That was gradually increasing the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels. Ground controllers ordered SOHO to store that intermittent flow of energy and recharge its batteries...
...when they were children, one at a time, standing on a lawn or on a playground, waiting for the ball to reach them. Their hug-me arms waver in the hot, wet air, as if they are attempting to embrace something vast and invisible. Their eyes blink in the sunlight. They stagger and stumble...
Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans said in an e-mail message that the Weld Observatory is "one of the prime spaces in Harvard Yard, with stellar views, bright sunlight and many creative possibilities...