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...dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning to cool people...
...pond, and it was recirculated by other pipes and pumps back to the snowmaker. The water was then sprayed out onto the pile all over again, as slush, adding still more ice granules to the growing mound. After several weeks, a compact mound of ice about 30 ft. thick had been formed...
...could save some crops, but there is no way to salvage dates, figs, olives or almonds. California need only look across the Pacific for an example of the fly's destructive power. Hawaii has been infested since 1910. The only fruit it exports in large quantities is the thick-skinned pineapple, which is immune to the bug. Says Dr. Leroy Williamson, a DOA scientist in Honolulu: "Prior to the fruit flies, we had an abundance of fruit. Now we compete with these insects for our food...
...that Wyszynski was "the unofficial dictator of the church, with prerogatives like no one else in the his tory of the church in Poland." But, while his successor is likely to be more collegial, the shrewd Wyszynski made sure that a well-prepared primate would still be in the thick of things...
...there it was, covering the city like a thick, yellow, semi-transparent blanket. And this was a sunny day! You look straight up and you see blue sky, but look across the horizon, and your view is cut off after a couple of miles by that blanket of claus ophobic petrochemicals...