Word: tapped
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Despite a national controversy about nuclear power, the Japanese are building a prototype breeder reactor and experimental fusion devices as large as any under construction in the U.S. Experiments are under way to tap the abundant geothermal energy of Japan's volcanoes. In seismology, the Japanese are aggressively looking for early warning signals in their tremulous terrain. Though initially dependent on help from NASA, Japan's space agency is now launching satellites with its own rockets, and will attempt to intercept Halley's comet when that celestial object races around the sun in 1986; similar U.S. plans...
...source of informed opinions about software, is an international collection of more than 1,200 users called EIES, for Electronic Information Exchange System. Operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, EIES has counted among its membership Author Alvin Toffler and former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson. Brand will tap the expertise of EIES and invite its entire community to recommend favorite pieces of software. Whole Earth staffers will then test the programs, weeding out items that are not first-rate. There will be few negative entries in the catalogue. Says Brand's editor at large, Art Kleiner: "Pans...
Whitney's Cafe (37 JFK St.): The only place in the Square to get a Rheingold on tap, if that is a plus. As high as the odds are that you'll go to the Kong at least once the odds are ever larger that you will never enter Whitney's. The night bartender, Joe, laments the fact that more students don't visit what many believe to be Harvard Square's only real working class bar He attributes the absence of "youngsters," somewhat mysteriously to the Vietnam...
...Boston Garden--which used to be the primary way station for these noise makers has gradually given way to the spanking new Centrum in Worcester, which is more than just a simple ride on the T. Life does have its special punishments for our little vices Styx is on tap for the Centrum Very sad So is the suddenly famous U2. Happy...
...When there's a market they can tap, they will go after it." Though Torch Song's success has lifted his career into orbit, it has not changed Fierstein's life very much in other ways. He still has an apartment in Brooklyn, where he lives alone with two dogs, still rides the subways and is still trying to curb, without much apparent progress, an overly generous waistline. His former lover, the bisexual schoolteacher, was thrilled to see Fierstein win the Tonys; Fierstein, meanwhile, has become involved with another actor-writer. Right now, however, he is thinking...