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Your article on plans for a solar-sail vehicle, the world's first spacecraft to fly powered by direct solar radiation [SCIENCE, March 5], noted that the idea goes back many years but failed to mention the contribution of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Back in 1964, he published a short story about an international race to the moon via "sun yacht." In The Wind from the Sun, Clarke detailed the competitors' various sail designs and their resultant difficulties in tacking to keep the sails facing the sun while making one orbit around the earth to gain escape velocity...
...Easy Living," with Jean Arthur, Ray Milland and Edward Arnold. Magnificent Depression fantasy that begins with a rich banker sailing his wife's sable coat off the penthouse roof. It lands on Jean Arthur as she rides to work on the upper deck of a New York bus. If the movie were made in modern times, it would be.... "Pretty Woman," wherein, with our fatal literal-mindedness, we turned the poor girl in the Cinderella story into a prostitute. She was Julia Roberts, it is true, but a prostitute all the same...
...Saturday's roster began with a jazz and hip-hop movement workshop led by dancer, choreographer and playwright Arthur Taylor, founder of an international traveling dance company of adolescents...
...White House Response I heard that Arthur Schlesinger heard a press conference I was doing on the radio and thought it was J.F.K. He panicked, and after that the White House was a little cool to what I was doing. But it took off, so J.F.K. portrayed himself as a good-natured, self-deprecating kind of guy. He put up a good front...[But] Jackie really did not care...
Many groups are working to mitigate that risk. The World Resources Institute and others are road-testing a system that would make trading less risky by creating universal carbon-accounting practices. And four companies--Arthur Andersen, Credit Lyonnais, Natsource and Swiss Re--are developing an exchange where companies can trade, even in an embryonic market devoid of legislative standards. "They're trying to nail down something that will be useful under laws that are not yet defined," says Garth Edward, a broker at Natsource, an energy-trading firm...