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Varian Associates of Palo Alto has also come up with an idea to tap the sun as a source of power. The firm has developed a gallium arsenide solar converter only one-third of an inch in diameter that can produce 10 watts of electricity from the sunlight reflected from a concentrating mirror...
...explains Sagan, "organisms with an interest in the conservation of heat and water may select larger sizes." The two scientists speculate that among the large life forms that could have evolved on Mars are ";petrophages" (rock eaters), which get their water and minerals from rocks; "crystophages" (ice eaters), which tap the permafrost beneath the surface; and creatures with shell-like shields for protection against the strong ultraviolet solar radiation that reaches the Martian surface...
...well taken care of in the immediate vicinity, and as you go further out, the variety increases. Some people's favorites are the consciously unpretentious bars--though that doesn't necessarily mean they're cheap. First, there's the aforementioned Cronin's, with large 70 cent light draft on tap and real atmosphere. For example, ask Mr. Cronin (the short graying guy with the cigar behind the bar) about Norman Mailer '43. He'll remember Mailer only as the guy who didn't pay his bills. Anyway, Cronin's is filled with working people who talk about local sports...
...Japan they killed off all the older politicians. All that were left were the damn fools who attacked Pearl Harbor. I think that this country needs elder statesmen too." If that rather strained analogy does not help, the age issue is reduced by the fact that he still tap-dances and fences...
...perhaps equally enviable: a 1,466-acre park of woodland trails that is almost twice as large as New York's Central Park. Geologists have long suspected that Houston's Memorial Park sits on a pool of oil and gas, and now the city wants to tap it. The scheme has naturally aroused the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, but their distress pales beside that of the city's oil establishment. The oilmen are upset not because the city plans to drill in Memorial Park but because of the way Houston's mayor, Fred Hofheinz...