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...find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter Red Rodney as he gave himself a fix. He went into a steady decline...
...system under consideration would be programmed to unlock a door only when the magnetic code on the student's Bursar's card matches the magnetic code for the entry's lock...
...supplies more efficiently, and redouble efforts to find ways of using materials-for example, oil-bearing shale-that were previously uneconomic or technically impossible to exploit. Before long, commercial harnassing of thermonuclear fusion could make available limitless quantities of low-cost energy, which could in turn be used to unlock new raw materials from the earth...
...atmosphere. To those primitive forms of life, in fact, oxygen would have been a poisonous gas. Thus instead of requiring oxygen, Martian organisms, like some terrestrial bacteria, might thrive in a carbon dioxide environment. To obtain water if they need it, Martian organisms may have evolved mechanisms to unlock the supply chemically bound into the rocks
...year history, Homo sapiens has found it harder to fathom the depths of his mind than to unlock the secrets of his body. But the discoveries of molecular biology may well show the way to a new comprehension; they may make it possible, through genetic engineering, surgery, drug therapy and electrical stimulation, to mold not only the body but also the mind...