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Increase spending, as Bush has begun to do, to support private research into new technologies. Provide special funding for research into alternative energy sources including solar electricity...
...Antarctic ozone hole has gone global. Under assault by man-made chlorofluorocarbons, levels of the vital stratospheric gas have begun to decline over temperate latitudes both north and south of the equator, including the skies above most of the continental U.S. The thinning ozone layer lets more solar ultraviolet light reach the ground, and the incidence of skin cancer and cataracts is likely to rise as a result...
...CHEAP SOLAR CELLS...
This was a particularly bright year for photovoltaics, the technology for converting sunlight into electricity. First Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison developed a silicon solar collector they claim will halve the cost of squeezing juice from the sun. Then a pair of researchers in Switzerland came up with an efficient photovoltaic device fashioned after the greatest solar cells of all: the chlorophyll molecules in plants...
Wars rage around the the globe. A vast, tragic empire collapses. The economy constricts painfully. But ordinary life -- and extraordinary life -- goes on. People still write novels and environmental treaties, design solar cells and stage sets, orchestrate symphonies and ad campaigns. They still care about tossing a salad or a baseball superbly. From science to show biz, they exert all the passion, wit, ingenuity, game playing -- and, yes, the ego, venality and damn-fool silliness -- that keep the human enterprise steaming along so entertainingly...