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...film, of all the personal stories and conflicts, of all the facts considered, none can match the sheer power of the scenes showing the explosion of the atomic bombs themselves. Some are in color, and the strange mixture of purple smoke and orange flame billowing into a mushroom cloud creates an image unique in its ability to arouse fear and fascination. All the long hours of work, the years of isolation in New Mexico, are compressed into nine seconds of radioactive horror...
...running!" Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made it probable that as early...
Cassinelli, working with John S. Mathis and Blair D. Savage, discovered R136A last summer using information collected by the International Ultra-Violet Explorer Satellite. The star is located 150,000 light years away inside the gaseous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. It is surrounded by ultra-violet rays which give the nebula its blue glow...
Until recently, the only information scientists had about this nebula was from its random sightings from the earth's Southern Hemisphere. Recently, it has been resolved to consist of several individual sources of light, but R136A is the first actual star that astronomers have spotted amidst this massive cloud. But some doubts remain among scientists...
George Washington, the incredible shrinking man on the dollar bill, warned against entangling foreign alliances. What would George think today? The world is knotted with defense treaties, trade agreements, international monetary plans; and each year $100 billion leaves his country in a cloud of imported oil smoke. This thunderhead of new wealth floats around the globe, threatening inflationary chaos wherever it hovers. Will it descend on gold, Beverly Hills real estate, Kansas farm land, New York coops...