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...deficit-well, I would be horrified if the deficit were not that large." Bunting calls for "a much more aggressive policy" toward easing the money supply and increasing federal spending. In his view, there should be big outlays for mass transportation and "a moon-shotlike operation to develop solar energy...
...institute's young founders, Marine Biologists John H. Todd, 35, and William O. McLarney, 34. Their crusade began in 1969 while they were teaching at San Diego State University. Between classes, they began looking into the prospects of cultivating fish and plants, and using wind and solar power directly instead of energy-wasting farm machinery. They called their experiment the New Alchemy Institute as a reminder of a time when science, art and philosophy were not considered separate or even antagonistic pursuits. Later Todd and McLarney moved to Massachusetts and joined the staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...that people buying the biggest gas guzzlers might be taxed an additional $600, for example, while those purchasing cars with the best mileage might receive a $400 rebate. Tax revenues would go into a trust fund for the development of new energy sources: coal gasification, perhaps, or geothermal and solar power...
...bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates an imaginary solar system, complete with charts and graphs. At their worst the essays are self-consciously strident and border, at times, on the obscure. Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow only becomes of effective when the writers each in his or her own way, attempt to deal with the reasons mainstream culture...
...star is Betelgeuse, a so-called red giant so large that it could encompass the inner solar system almost all the way out to the orbit of Jupiter. On a clear night last March, Astronomers Roger Lynds, Jack Harvey and Peter Worden took some 40 photographs of Betelgeuse, exposing each of the plates to the star's light for less than one-hundredth of a second...