Word: impactions
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...professors, one from Harvard and one from Boston University, will issue a report next Saturday evaluating the impact of "Operation Exodus" on racial imbalance problems in Boston's schools...
Second, Pasolini often pans across a blurred background, following the face of a running man. The emotional impact of such images underlines what I take to be the dominant image of the film: Christ walking through Israel, tracked from behind...
...phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open on impact) that fell on land. Air Force generals even helped gather more than 1,600 tons of slightly contaminated topsoil* for burial in the nuclear-waste plot of Aiken...
Back to the Classics. Italians also pointed the way in safety, with two experimental cars: the PF Sigma, designed by the late Sergio Pininfarina, and the Secura, designed by the research branch of Quattroruote, the Italian auto magazine. Both cars have sliding doors that cannot spring open on impact, collapsible steering columns, heavily padded interiors, pop-out front and rear windows, and a body that sandwiches an extra-strong passenger compartment to absorb collision forces...
GOMA has since consumed most of Peggy Robarge's time and most of the family's savings, but it has attracted almost 50,000 members nationwide. "The problem," she says, "is human erosion, the impact of millions of people on the hairline balance of nature." The solution, she thinks, lies not in closing off overused parklands but in educating the public to their proper use. With a shoestring budget of $800 and the dedicated efforts of 25 full-time volunteers, her organization has put together slide shows with accompanying texts that contrast spoiled and unspoiled nature. They rent...