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oday the highlight of Appledore Island, six miles off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is sun- and wind-powered Shoals Marine Research Laboratory, jointly run by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. The painter Childe Hassam would barely recognize the island, a square mile of granite and basaltlike blocks overgrown by scrub, whose manmade environment …
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