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...fact, early Bureau of Mines tests in commercial scale plants at Rifle, Colorado, showed that oil could be made from coal at no cost per barrel when produced in series with a steam-generated electric power plant, using its excess steam to produce gasoline, a smokeless solid fuel, and liquid fuels worth more than the cost of the raw coal itself...
...success of her book has surprised no one more than Jong, who considered it too "literary" for wide appeal. But literary it is not. Poorly constructed, too prone to phrases like "our mouths melted like liquid," it has a shapeless, self-indulgent plot and weak characterizations, especially of the men. But Isadora obviously has wide appeal. Says her creator: "Fear of Flying is a litmus test for everybody's mishegoss [Yiddish for craziness]." Warren Farrell, a spokesman for the men's liberation movement, feels that Fear of Flying will help free both sexes. As women take more initiative...
...said that the preservation of the fetus in Formalin, a liquid solution of formaldehyde, dehydrated the fetus so that it weighed less at the autopsy than it did at the time of the operation...
...submarine geology and attempts to study the underwater mountain range that bisects the Atlantic. Nor does he slight the host of others who have mapped the ocean bottoms, peered into smoking volcanoes or attempted to drill through the earth's crust to the semimolten mantle that surrounds its liquid core. Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie. He points out that the ancestors of certain North American animals seem to have come to their new home from Asia, something they could not have done if an ocean...
...must find their way back to the oil countries. In the 1980s some OPEC members may be earning as much from interest on their loans and bank deposits as from oil. This added wealth would give them more flexibility to reduce oil production if they want to conserve their liquid gold or to punish importers by reductions for political reasons. Meanwhile, to pay the interest, the borrowers may have to print more and more money, fueling inflation...