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...students set up solar viewing equipment to get a better view of the eclipse, which lasted about an hour and a half. They had intended to watch the celestial phenomenon from the roof of the Science Center, but high winds made the equipment unstable...
...really neat to see huge solar system bodies crossing each other," said Benjamin D. Oppenheimer '99, an astronomy enthusiast at the viewing...
...Gore. After all, the worst case for Clinton means the Oval Office for Gore. The Vice President's poll numbers are up, and his Air Force Two press compartment is full of reporters who have little choice but to report on Gore and his 21st century agenda: solar-energy tax credits. High-tech classrooms. Computerized police departments. And the "Digital Earth initiative," Gore's vision of tomorrow's science museum, a 3-D virtual globe connected via the Internet to all the scientific, political, geographic and cultural data under the sun. "You reporters want scandal," says a senior Gore adviser...
...flying makes you queasy, you'll be relieved to know that Pathfinder--NASA's ultralight, solar-powered aircraft, that is, not the Mars lander of the same name--isn't taking passengers just yet. But according to a NASA briefing last week, the remote-controlled plane's high-altitude (71,500 ft.), low-speed (15 m.p.h.) flights are perfect for the kind of environmental research now being done by orbiting satellites. Pathfinder's flexible 99-ft. wings, glistening with $1 million worth of solar panels, have been tested only in sunny Hawaii. So the plane carries a backup battery system...
...pleased with the first-rate report on the economic viability of solar and wind power and electric vehicles [BUSINESS, Dec. 15], but I was disappointed that the excellent environmental benefits of ethanol were not mentioned. America already produces large volumes of this renewable, clean-burning liquid fuel from plants, including grains such as corn. Tomorrow new processes and technologies will enable us to produce this high-quality fuel from a wide range of plant feed stocks at prices competitive with those of gasoline. In conjunction with fuel cells, ethanol will let us reduce our need for imported oil and dramatically...