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Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating. If one came of age in 1938, then Artie Shaw's version of Begin the Beguine might be the signature he went by, the sound that would date his soul like the exact ring on a redwood. A few years earlier, it might have been Hoagy Carmichael doing Stardust...
...graduated with the highest grade-point average in his class last year, and who was a first-year student at Yale Medical School, died last December. Police said they found him in the garage of his parents' home about five miles from New Haven and that he died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
...come up with a superhit since Dallas and Mork and Mindy, both of which premiered in 1978. Says former TV Producer Norman Lear (All in the Family, Mary Hartman): "A show becomes a big hit because it is dynamically different. But the networks are afraid of different. They want carbon-copy television." To the programming chiefs, says Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales, "a new idea looks like a foreign object-it's something to run away from. So they clone whatever was successful elsewhere. Just watch: next year's surefire hit will be called Magnum E.T. They...
...beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes the hard evidence of a canyon wall or handful of dirt with quick confidence and cheerful clarity. "I see little pieces of carbon. I see green chert. I see a bug crawling through the sand...
...Carbon-dioxide injections are just one of a panoply of methods for pepping up senescent wells. All have arisen because conventional pumping can extract only about one-third of the contents of a field before the flow stops. When oil prices were still rising, experts predicted that enhancing techniques could more than double U.S. recoverable reserves, which now stand at about 30 billion bbl. But some current projections are for an increase in reserves of closer to 50%. That would still be enough to keep U.S. wells flowing into the middle of the 21st century...