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...interaction of the field with the solar wind as the planet turns on its axis, the spacecraft established that Uranus rotates once approximately every 17 hours. The technique, explained Physicist James Warwick, can be likened to standing on a lawn and "feeling the water drops every time a sprinkler goes around." By tracking clouds in the atmosphere, Voyager discovered high-altitude winds moving around the planet at 220 m.p.h., more than twice as fast as they travel above the earth...
...freshmen who built the loft said neither the smoke alarm nor the sprinkler system is blocked by the wooden structure. The sprinkler and the smoke alarm are on the wall opposite the loft, they said...
...loft is a fire hazard and a threat to student safety," said Rosen. "It compromises the sprinkler and the smoke alarm in the room...
...ablaze last week in Dallas. Arsonists started a fire in the basement of the old Texas School Book Depository, the red brick seven-story structure, now the Dallas County administration building, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy in 1963. Because the decades-old sprinkler system had been turned off for repairs, flames made their way through the building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might have had a key or hid in the building," said Fire Marshal...
Back in Hollywood, where the scenery was being struck, the letdown was palpable. "I feel tike I have lost a friend," said David Provence, who in order to see the Games had taken off two weeks from his job as an industrial water-sprinkler installer. "I wouldn't mind going to Seoul in four years." In the manner of a beloved old ballpark being stripped for demolition, disposable slabs of vermilion and magenta will soon go on sale in a gigantic flea market. The saddest figure in Los Angeles was the honored policeman who wanted to be a hero...