Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Circling the earth with as many as seven people aboard, the ship should be able to do everything from parking and repairing satellites to conducting zero-g experiments and space manufacturing. One early project: the orbiting of a giant remote-controlled telescope. High above the obscuring atmosphere, it will give astronomers sharper views of the heavens than any mirror on earth. Europeans, for their part, are contributing a space lab that will be carried up by the shuttle and act as a scientific workshop...
...only in size (75 ft.) to the mammoth blues, are an endangered species fully protected everywhere else in the world, but the Icelanders are permitted to take a few hundred every year, most of which are shipped off to whale-eating Japan. Suddenly, as the whaler was about to zero in on its prey, a small, outboard-powered Zodiac inflatable materialized under the ship's towering...
...March 1952, calling the regulation "tactically unrealistic," the Pentagon pressed the AEC to relax its rule that soldiers must be kept at least seven miles away from ground zero. Though the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine warned of eye damage and burns, though not cancer, its Division of Military Application allowed the troops within four miles. The military's reasoning: the soldiers could more easily "exploit the enemy's position" after the blast...
Financed by socialists in Europe and South America, the Terceristas have staged the most spectacular Sandinista operations, including last year's brief takeover of the National Palace in Managua. The best-known Tercerista is Eden Pastora, the Comandante Cero (Zero) who led that raid. More influential are the Ortega brothers, Humberto and Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic...
...years now and a projected 63 years by 2000. At the same time, Third World birth rates are dropping, although they are still far above replacement level. This is not so in much of the First World: such countries as the U.S. and Japan are only slightly above zero population growth. The result: a "rising average age of the population and increasing proportions of the aged." The phenomenon will require a shift in social spending from child health and education to welfare systems for the old, but a smaller working population will have to bear the increasing cost. Moreover countries...