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That would be hot enough to start fusion, the same energy-releasing reaction that fires the sun or an H-bomb. Some of the material would be consumed by the black hole, but most of it would be explosively blown away as extremely hot electrified gases. By letting these gases pass through a magnetic field created by a generator aboard the spacecraft, a powerful electric current could be induced in wires rigged outside the craft...
...ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...
...Lowell production, directed by John Clarke, wisely pays as much attention to acting as to music. Kimberly Daniel, as Zerbinetta, the leader of the comedians, personifies this fusion of dramatic and musical excellence. She manages to be coquettish while singing some of the most difficult coloratura writing in the literature. Her duet with the Composer (Loretta Giles) is the high point of the prologue, doing full justice to what Strauss called one of the finest things he ever wrote...
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will soon give this process its first test. If it works, says Robert Rex, president of Republic Geothermal Inc., "the energy could provide all the additional power the nation will require until thermonuclear fusion and solar sources are developed." But until the "dry rock" technique is shown to be feasible, geothermal power seems bound to remain only a marginal, supplemental answer to U.S. energy problems...
Possible alternatives to the present oil crisis lie in learning to harness other fossil fuels like coal or such non-fossil fuels as fission, fusion, hydrogen, or solar energy, Meyer said. He added that it is in these directions of research and study that the United States should be moving with a concentrated effort...