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...learn to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the past 11,000." So says Corn Geneticist Ronald Phillips of the University of Minnesota. Can it be done, especially since the so-called Green Revolution has just about run out of steam? The answer may lie in the fact that a second Green Revolution, powered by the wonders of genetic engineering, has been gathering impetus for some time and now seems within reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tampering with Beans and Genes | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...unusual feature of the Head is its staggered start. The boats do not square off head-to-head; they each race against the clock. The only classic "confrontations" you see come when one shell picks up enough steam to overtake another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Headiness on the Charles, | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

SURPRISINGLY, the cinematography -- often neglected in mass market comedies--really stands out in So Fine. Bergman fills his movie with very precise and stark images, from the perfect whiteness of a steam bath to the glaring neon colors of a disco. Though inconcequential to the plot, the film's most brilliantly conceived scene is an imaginary advertisement for the So Fine blue jeans, in which set, graphics, color, music and choreography all combine to create a powerful image which far outclasses anything currently shown...

Author: By David J. Waldstein, | Title: More Than Just T & A | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

...project--the result of a 1980 energy audit--also includes installing storm windows, insulating pipes and windows, and increasing reliance on steam heat. These improvements should be completed this fall Lichten said, adding "we have a five-year goal of cutting energy use in half in faculty buildings...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Thermostats to Give Students Control, Slash Steam-Heat Use by 25 Per Cent | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

...University focused its attention on steam-heated buildings, because they are more difficult to control than water-heated structures. Parts of some water-heated dorms--Grays, Hollis, Stoughton, and Weld--will get thermostats...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Thermostats to Give Students Control, Slash Steam-Heat Use by 25 Per Cent | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

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