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...elements have also taken their toll. But these earlier assaults may pale beside the damage that could come from the industrialization of Agra (pop. 1,250,000), which creates great clouds of pollutants. Worse still, the Taj is located in the valley of the Yamuna River, where atmospheric inversions trap corrosive agents for days at a time...
...flowers so much as an urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful in its way, but beautiful for adults only. Welcome to the East Side...
...claimed, borrowed copies of the final two from friendly editors in other cities. Thus the entire series appeared simultaneously in both papers, contrary to industry canons. Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, suspecting that the Star was lifting the series from early editions of his own paper, laid a trap. He had the text of Part 4 changed slightly; the Star's version repeated the changes. He also altered Part 5 so that the first letters of the article's opening paragraphs spelled out HI MURRAY, a gibe at Star Editor Murray J. Gart. That trick did not work...
...Sunday-schoolish soft-shelled watery-eyed sponge-backed Millenial lulu"). But all the caring is gone. Wolfe doesn't let his subjects hang themselves anymore (as he did so exquisitely in "Radical Chic," his description of Leonard Bernstein's fund-raiser for the Black Panthers); he must open the trap-door himself...
...planet Venus. At the time, many scientists still regarded Venus as a kind of sister planet of the earth with a benign climate. But radio emissions from the planet were hinting at puzzlingly high temperatures. Sagan pointed out that a Venusian atmosphere of carbon dioxide and water vapor would trap solar heat, create a "greenhouse effect" and raise surface temperatures far above those of the earth. His prediction was soon confirmed by Soviet landers. The planet's surface temperature proved to be about 480° C (900° F), high enough to melt lead...