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America's flirtation with wood-burning stoves has flamed into a love affair. So strong has the affinity become that more U.S. homes are now heated by wood than by electricity from nuclear power plants. A recent study by Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering also found that more than 49% of all industrial boilers built in 1980 burn mainly wood. Says Energy Expert Nigel Smith of Worldwatch: "The U.S. is on the crest of the wave of nations returning to wood...
...ambidextrous Gunnoe, who lived with Capt. Pete Wood in a "not completely preppy" Eliot House, until recently figured Crimson lacrosse, He notes, however, that the game was not played under the same conditions then as it is today...
Inside the Mink Branch mine, far below the muddy clutter of wood siding and decrepit machines at the opening, the Hamiltons were taking coal by "shooting from the solid." This problematic technique consists of detonating tubes of explosives tamped a few feet into a coal seam. (Safer, mechanized extraction techniques would cost at least twice as much...
Even when the subject is not biblical, a whiff of another world comes off many of the works: Sam Doyle's portrait of Dr. Buz, the voodoo man, getting instructions from his conch shell, or the extraordinary sculptures of charred old wood made by Jesse Aaron (1887-1979), totems and animals whose sheer metamorphic intensity would blow late Dubuffet out of any museum. The strength of Aaron's work owed everything to his belief that his task was to release the latent image from the log, where it was trapped. "God put the faces in the wood...
Contractors charge that Washington is to blame for most of the problems. General Dynamics Executive Frederick Wood says that in addition to pursuing endlessly the "latest bell and whistle," the Government too often slows production, hoping to keep immediate costs down but causing problems in the long run. John W. Day, president of Chrysler Defense Corp., contends that multiyear contracts would save large sums of money because they simply allow for more orderly production. Speaking in Pentagonese, he says, "It would allow you to go out and facilitize in such a way as to maximize profitability." In other words...